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tooright 2 years ago
Does anyone else find atheism completely ridiculous? Essentially it’s saying that you believe in science so hard that I KNOW there can’t be a god. However, if you were truly in to science, you would also understand that the absence of proof doesn’t prove something doesn’t exist or didn’t happen, merely that we don’t yet have any proof. At best you can be agnostic. In order to be atheist, you need proof God does NOT exist, which can not be proven. image

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Jack Spirko jackspirko@primal.net 2 years ago
Best explanation of this I have seen. I'd consider myself an agnostic deist. I think any sane and honest person is an agnostic when it comes to god. Claiming to know the unknowable is not logical,
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tooright 2 years ago
I think #[2]​ saw my post 😂😂
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BeOG Beog@zbd.gg 2 years ago
GOD for me is all the amazing stuff that can't be explained. Or the one word that can sum up consciousness, space, higher self, imagination. It's hard for me to think about GOD as the all seeing eye in the sky that's watching our every move and keeping track of our behavior, Or some being that people assign gender too 🤢
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Boatface 2 years ago
As you frame it, indeed! The unknowable is, by definition, unknowable. But there is also “reason to believe” and missing from your comment is “good reason to believe.”
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tooright 2 years ago
Same. There are too many crazy and perfect unexplainable designs and synergies to the universe to not believe in some form of higher power.
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npub1n6rh...l5ne 2 years ago
Claiming to know (to a degree) God is logical if the purpose in our creation is to know Him.
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tooright 2 years ago
100%. I was trying to keep the OP strictly to atheism.
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tooright 2 years ago
Have you read Darwin’s Doubt? If not, it’s friggin’ good. Makes a scientifically based argument for the existence of an intelligent being, as well as completely destroys evolution.
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Art By Leigh Murphy 2 years ago
“Empirical Agnostic” here. The older I get, with the life experiences that come with it, helps to show me more of how there is so much I cannot explain with human understanding. Accepting that I can’t ever comprehend the extent of what I don’t know. And whatever sentience or Entity in that infinite realm does not need my comprehension, worship or obedience to continue to exist.
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