(January 20, 2016 at 1:36 pm)wallym Wrote: That's what I assumed as well. But in the thread people are talking about how they wouldn't change if they knew there were a God other than believing there was a God.
So if your perspective leads to the conclusion there is no God, which is fine, but then you find out there is a God, it seems weird to be as confident as that group that it'd have no impact on their perspective, right? Not even a "let's see what this thing we couldn't imagine existing has to say." Just straight up, don't care. There's something significant in that, to be sure there'd be no need to even give a God that you concluded doesn't exist, but turns out it does, 5 minutes because you're that certain it'd be waste of everyone's time?
The question was about whether or not an atheist would join in a religion if god was proven to exist. It didn't ask if you would ignore that god completely. It was mainly a question to try to point out the uselessness and absurdity of religion, even if a god was real.
Personally, I find religion so absurd that any god that demanded such behavior would not get my worship.
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
