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You are my favorite kind of atheist, the one that comes along and lectures us that the word atheist essentially means "correct", and no one else has any busines
by nsxwolf 9y ago
You are my favorite kind of atheist, the one that comes along and lectures us that the word atheist essentially means "correct", and no one else has any business at the table of ideas.
A fairly big irrational claim of atheists: The universe created itself from nothing.
- pmarreck 9y agoI love how you pigeonholed me as atheist. I am not. I tend to side with them only because they seem more reasonable, but I'm fairly agnostic and believe in some things (based on experience) that most atheists would scoff at. Your open-minded doubting-Thomas, as it were. Probably "secular humanist" is the most apt description of my worldview. > The universe created itself from nothing. And yet it is an equally irrational claim that some entity did it, because there is no evidence of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps It is intellectually dishonest to explain away anything not understood as "God's creation". That is not to say there is no God, although the Abrahamic (judeo-muslim-christian) God is in fact illogical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil > that the word atheist essentially means "correct" You forgot "debatable". Unlike religious beliefs. I would agree that most atheists assume too much to be true without evidence (because their conclusions are rational, even if untrue... and that is where irrationality sets foot in the unfathomable equation...) > A fairly big irrational claim of atheists: The universe created itself from nothing. Actually, there may not even have been a Big Bang: https://www.livescience.com/49958-theory-no-big-bang.html https://www.livescience.com/49958-theory-no-big-bang.html There goes your God-proof, I guess...