tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534221498298699129.post4711122854699549487..comments2023-10-07T06:00:15.459-05:00Comments on Secret Server: All Kinds of Fucked Up- In which I explain agnosticism to the Christiansnicketmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487153057136367343noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534221498298699129.post-80981446804068887622021-04-05T06:04:19.215-05:002021-04-05T06:04:19.215-05:00Pitch deck design services
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I wonder if that is what I was looking for when I wrote this post.snicketmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07487153057136367343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534221498298699129.post-471172775175679382009-02-03T21:15:00.000-06:002009-02-03T21:15:00.000-06:00Here are a couple of my favorite quotes on this su...Here are a couple of my favorite quotes on this subject:<BR/><BR/>Christians hold that their faith does good, but other faiths do harm... What I wish to maintain is that all faiths do harm. We may define faith as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. When there is evidence, no one speaks of faith. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence... We are told that faith could remove mountains, but no one believed it; we are now told that the atomic bomb can remove mountains, and everyone believes it. --Bertrand Russell--<BR/><BR/><BR/>That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve him an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins--all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built. --Bertrand Russell--Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534221498298699129.post-84471631760406492702009-02-03T12:18:00.000-06:002009-02-03T12:18:00.000-06:00There is definitely a difference between the commo...There is definitely a difference between the common use of atheist and the textbook definition. I, for one do not believe in god. I consider myself an atheist, based not on what I can prove, but on what I believe. (And I can honestly answer IDNKM's posed question "Do you believe there is NO god" with a "yes!")Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05975916794760117696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534221498298699129.post-41949453236039806942009-02-02T22:16:00.000-06:002009-02-02T22:16:00.000-06:00From reading your other post before you deleted it...From reading your other post before you deleted it and from having spoken to you about your relationship with your mom and stepdad in the past, I think it speaks volumes of good about your character that you attempt to have any relationship with these people at all.<BR/><BR/>The life that T lives and the way that he treated your family doesn't not show him to be a Christian or a good person. People like that need God to excuse and forgive them for the evil that they have done to others. You base your behavior on what is right and wrong, because you have a conscience. God does not need to forgive you for your evil-doing because as far as I know you are not an evil-doer and do not need forgiveness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534221498298699129.post-65801448860841228502009-02-02T21:04:00.000-06:002009-02-02T21:04:00.000-06:00From my reading of the definitions of atheist and ...From my reading of the definitions of <A HREF="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheist" REL="nofollow">atheist</A> and <A HREF="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agnostic" REL="nofollow">agnostic</A> the distinction seems to be that the atheist positively believes there are no gods whereas the agnostic believes that it is unknowable whether there is a god. <BR/><BR/>It is the difference between the questions: "do you believe in god?" and "do you believe there is NO god?" Answering no to the first question makes you an atheist in some people's books. Only a yes to the second makes you an atheist by THE book (Webster's dictionary).<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that being a <I>devout</I> atheist requires a leap of faith similar to being a theist. I don't think that leap is quite as large, but I think it still comes down to an arguably arbitrary choice of what to believe since there is no evidence either way. Of course, it would take a lot more evidence to prove that there is NO god (the inherent difficulty of proving a negative) than it would to prove that there IS. <BR/><BR/>So in the framework of: I have no evidence to support the existence of a god, but cannot eliminate the possibility of one (or many), you can put me in the agnostic category too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534221498298699129.post-8725934422110488212009-02-02T11:04:00.000-06:002009-02-02T11:04:00.000-06:00I love it how the "Christians" don't want to be ar...I love it how the "Christians" don't want to be around the people that don't believe what they do. Hypocrisy at its best.Sarah's Blogtastic Adventureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16203603840893173745noreply@blogger.com