How atheist are you

[Cyberman]

If I had to place myself on the Dawkins Scale, I reckon I'd weigh in at around 6.9 recurring. That's because, as others have already said, claiming absolute knowledge in either direction would be foolish; whatever you may think you know, there's always going to be that margin for error.

But the scale is only calibrated for gnosticism/agnosticism, not theism/atheism. In terms of my beliefs about gods and associated detritus, to invoke Laplace "I have no need of that hypothesis".

[NoraBrimstone]

I'm a 7. I don't fuck about.

[shadowninjax]

6 seems like a good number in the scale. I'll stick with that.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Do these numbers represent flaccid length or erect length?

[LostLocke]

I'm so atheist I'm going to crack this walnut right now!

Don't ask, I don't know what the connection is either....

[houseofcantor]

I think this scale is BS. I just don't have any reasons to believe, and that's all. It's totally ridiculous for anyone to claim they know anything- all humans are agnostic whether they admit it or not. Nobody knows. I get tired of theists and atheists who claim to know something that is unknowable. So fuck Dawkins and his stupid scale.

Wow. Touch a nerve there?

7

As a prophet I know for a fact (as much as anything can be known) that god does not have identity.

[Marvin]

I'd be OK with the concept if I got to be god.
I did the rounds of local Churches but none of them recognised my divinity.
It's not as if I want to be god all the time, I'm OK taking turns.
I don't know why I couldn't be god on Tuesdays 9-11pm, that's not unreasonable is it?

[CleanShavenJesus]

If I had to place myself on his scale, I'd probably be a 5, maybe 5.5?

But I don't have to, because just the sentence, "How atheist are you?" in itself makes me cringe.

[PracticalPackers113]

6.99. I am open to the idea of a deistic God, though I have no belief in it.

[Angrboda]

I think if you're talking with a theist the Dawkins scale can be helpful in gauging the degree to which your worldviews differ. If the Atheist is a 7 and the Theist is a 1, the conversation isn't going to go anywhere....

Not at all true. I'm a 1 who gets along fine with 7s.


Which gets back to the main flaw with the scale, it is primarily a scale of Western religion related to Judeo-Christian-Muslim monotheism. I'm a Hindu (mono) theist, yet don't really belong on this scale. Nor do Buddhists. Or Shinto. Or all the varieties of Taoist. Or....