Posts: 13051
Threads: 66
Joined: February 7, 2011
Reputation:
92
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 12:10 am
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth. Atheism leads inexorably toward nihilism, whether they accept it or not. So in the end, they're really just nihilists
You always say that, yet you never have anything better to support it with than, "because without my god, life is meaningless." You've never been able to justify your presupposition that meaning is worthless if not from an external source.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Posts: 23918
Threads: 300
Joined: June 25, 2011
Reputation:
151
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 12:33 am
Yeah, just seems like an individual quirk to me. I've never understood why anyone would think themselves the measure of all things. It does kind of explain the need to claim an objective source for everything. It would be rather immodest otherwise.
Posts: 7155
Threads: 12
Joined: March 14, 2013
Reputation:
72
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 13, 2014 at 6:11 am
(May 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If you really want to piss off an atheist tell them the truth.
S-so you're saying that this dress really
does make me look fat?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould