“Atheists, by definition, don't think any religion has any reasonable likelihood of being true.”
Greta Christina
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Reminds me of the quote “an atheist is not so different from a theist, he just believes in one less God than the theist”.
The apologist tries to say that the concept of god or gods belief, or that the many different faiths, are just different ways to know the divine, but that simply begs for verisimilitude.
Actually, I think she has it a bit wrong – it isn’t the religions that we don’t think are true, just their single unifying tenant, that of a god however they choose to express it. Pull that one out from underneath, and the whole edifice built on the concept falls to the ground.
Sorry about that heap that used to be your faith, folks…
May 24th, 2013 at 14:04
This, I think, is the closest to how I feel about it. I don’t think that any answer we have postulated to date is correct.
May 24th, 2013 at 17:47
Reminds me of the quote “an atheist is not so different from a theist, he just believes in one less God than the theist”.
The apologist tries to say that the concept of god or gods belief, or that the many different faiths, are just different ways to know the divine, but that simply begs for verisimilitude.
May 24th, 2013 at 18:05
Actually, I think she has it a bit wrong – it isn’t the religions that we don’t think are true, just their single unifying tenant, that of a god however they choose to express it. Pull that one out from underneath, and the whole edifice built on the concept falls to the ground.
Sorry about that heap that used to be your faith, folks…
May 24th, 2013 at 19:24
jeff,,,,,you’re right, of course
but dont forget the believers are always after 2 things……….
a) a supernatural entity that has brought all things into being
b) a supernatural entity that then wishes to be WORSHIPPED
for being such a cosmic swell guy !!!
see… it’s the worshipped part that is such puke. if there’s any real
worship you might credit stephen hawking .
dont even get me started on SIN !!!
rj