RE: Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...
June 5, 2020 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2020 at 12:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 5, 2020 at 11:39 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: You didn't fully read what I wrote. Vampires and werewolves are not supernatural. They are either real or not real. In the framework of fiction they are real and therefore natural.
Vampires and werewolves are supernatural, even if stories about them are eminently natural. Real and not real..existent and nonexistent, is beside the point of the natural and supernatural. It's not the same metric at all.
(June 5, 2020 at 12:46 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Doesn't this render the term "naturalism" meaningless? We're all naturalists then, even theists and folks who believe in fairies and such.
We are. We no longer believe that there is more than one stuff, and whether we call that stuff natural, supernatural..... or blorp, it's all the same stuff.
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