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"Being an atheist implies some degree of faith." As someone smarter than me once put it: "It's not that I believe in no gods, it's just that I don't believe in

by m0nty 18y ago

"Being an atheist implies some degree of faith." As someone smarter than me once put it: "It's not that I believe in no gods, it's just that I don't believe in gods." Christians and other believers have this most extra-ordinary theory: that there is an all-powerful creator who created everything, who sees everything, and has everything under control. They offer not one shred of proof, then muse out loud about the "faith" required not to believe in their absurd hypothesis. I'd love to believe in gods of some kind -- it's not easy to accept the inevitability of your own annihilation -- but nobody has ever given me sufficient reason to deviate from the more sensible position of non-belief.

rbanffy 18y ago
"It's not that I believe in no gods, it's just that I don't believe in gods." It seems this person is agnostic rather than an atheist. As I put previously, an atheist believes "the God question" (that cannot be answered at all) actually has an answer and the answer is "no". An agnostic acknowledges we cannot answer the God question. As for the werewolf question, it is easier to create testable hypothesis that could and most probably would be proven false. And, of course, even if you can prove false every "evidence" every religion says it provides, that would not answer the God question. It would only prove religions didn't get it right. The God question cannot be answered with science and, so, it cannot be really answered. We are not discussing science here. We are discussing semantics. BTW, I would be quite astonished if God did, indeed, exist. And somewhat happy. It's pretty dry here in no-faith-land.
- IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
  It's pretty dry here in no-faith-land. What a very sad way to look at life.