Re: What is an Atheist?
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:09 pm
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TheVisionofEr wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:08 pmEXACTLYThat was YOU! LOL
I don’t know why you would conclude that.So Catholic bad; other theist good?SO what? You misrepresented Darwin. Protestantism is very different.All Christianity stems from the combined life of the Greek and Latin Churches, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox. Theology in England after Henry the Eighth broke from Rome didn’t start from zero.Darwin was NEVER a Catholic.
Darwin was not a Catholic. He died a good atheist, having applied reason to his understanding of the world after a lifetime of hard work and study.Back at ya!Childish apodictic blather. All our concepts are historical, they have evolved like our bodies, and are the product of centuries of discussion. Including that of nature.Nature is nature.
God is NOT nature. Such a statement is idiotic.
What we call nature has always existed; god just a recent invention by the ignorant.You are off the point and confused. Have you anything worthy to say?
I give you a proof. Nature does not mean green stuff and primordial forests and beautiful stones in contradistinction to the human built world and to the poetic life of the sage, as it does in China. Which is to say the idea one gets by birth in China. Nature does not mean simply by birth, it has a peculiar and artificial meaning in the west, and most of all in western science which is the current form of philosophy now popular.
He goes through his thinking both in his autobiography and especially in the letter with the analogy about the "mind of Newton" which I commend to you. Then one can see what the questions are about in detail instead of just having the empty title cards.SO what? You misrepresented Darwin. Protestantism is very different.
Darwin was not a Catholic. He died a good atheist, having applied reason to his understanding of the world after a lifetime of hard work and study.
Not quite.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:26 pm An atheist is the counterpoint of the believer, both guilty of the same logical fallacy of pretending to know what cannot be known.
Not at all. It's been easy.
Do you know what a "fallacy" means? It means a rational inconsistency, such that a claim is deficient in logic. It does not mean a claim that is yet to be factually established. There are plenty of claims that are fine in logic, but not in fact, and some that are fine in both logic and empirical fact....it is simply a logical fallacy on the part of the believer and the unbeliever.
You're a Muslim?
lol!!! You are a believer, there is no point.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:40 pmYou're a Muslim?
Or just somebody who would rather not think about it?
Well, you don't know that. You don't know what I believe, or on what basis I believe it. And of course, if you're a self-declared Atheist, you have no way of knowing what's true about God. You just know that you, personally, don't want to think there's a God. But whether or not anybody else should, you don't know.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:48 pmlol!!! You are a believer, there is no point.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:40 pmYou're a Muslim?
Or just somebody who would rather not think about it?
I was just being factual. It takes no special grace to observe the necesssary.
Ya got that right.
Ah well, you don't have to know to believe. Or not believe.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:26 pm...both guilty of the same logical fallacy of pretending to know what cannot be known.