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Because you didn’t read the book so you think I’m lying about what he said? He held various opinions about these issues through his life, as one would expect fr
by leephillips 5y ago
Because you didn’t read the book so you think I’m lying about what he said? He held various opinions about these issues through his life, as one would expect from an active thinker. But in the book I mentioned he specifically says that it is incoherent to claim to be an atheist or an agnostic, because both these descriptions implicitly refer to the “god” non-concept. And no, you can’t define a negative space by using a word that doesn’t refer to anything.
EDIT: As you’ve seen fit to edit your comment while I was replying to it, I’m done.
- thewakalix 5y ago"Misrepresenting" isn't quite the same as "lying". It can be done unintentionally. Edit: This is not a chat application. I had no way of knowing if and when you were replying. I don't see how I broke a norm, unless the norm here is "never use the edit mechanism".
- implements 5y agoAn atheist is anyone who lacks an affirmed belief in the existence of God - God being a powerful thinking entity responsible for the creation of the reality in which we exist. Sure, we can’t make sense of how reality exists, or find evidence that a god is responsible - but is that sufficient to assert incoherence? Is it less incoherent to believe that reality has a property of self-creation, as many physicists do?