Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

Well, you kinda do - or at least a hell of a lot them - to know whether you actually reject them.

Otherwise, what's the point of atheism, if you can't reject a full spectrum of gods?

 

Study ethics.

 

Yeah, which, if you're not actively looking for evidence to prove that position, can render you a proverbial flat-earth "I know it's false because I feel it's false" style thinker.

I think atheist can be profound, in a sense, but it is rarely that.

I think some boring atheists land where they do for moral purposes - i.e. religion sucks, and it hurts people. In that case, it'd be doubly important to know most of the religions to see if, in fact, that's true of the majority of them, or all of them. But the scholarship is fleeting there, too.

 

Nice try. How'd they come about? I mean, you must have an answer to that. They didn't come out of the ethics cauldron of the universe.

Did they derive from evolution? The survival of our species, that kind of thing?

 

Ah, the rare appearance of Epistemological Alma.

 

You’re...maybe a church goer? Yes? So you must find the standard atheism sort of ridiculous, I’d think.

 

I am a churchgoer. I'm a member, sit on one of the committees and am a volunteer with our weekly children's service.

But it's not for me to say anyone else's beliefs (or non-beliefs) are ridiculous. If someone's atheism or agnosticism works for him or her, that's great.

 

Thought experiment:
It's 900 years later. Humans have spread out to corner of earth, mined the shit out of it and have the technology to map out the layers of the earth. Never found a dinosaur bone. Mankind has developed jet engines, lightweight alloys, and understands fluid dynamics. Cannot fucking fly.

Do you give either of those fools from 900 years ago any thought?