SillySapienne
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I am morally and emotionally an atheist primary to my being an intellectual one, just sayin'.
*shrugs*
*shrugs*
Darling, I can find and procure at least 10 or 15 posts of yours where you, yes, DIRECTLY ATTACK ME. (The above, ironically, not being one of them).
It has taken everything within me, (primarily pity), not to strike back at you.
You have mastered the talent of being insulting under the moderator's radar, whereas I have not.
Because I care more about this forum than I do not caring about you, you shall officially join the lone Wolf on my ignore list.
Peace out MP.
:hi:
How many times have you seen he and I engage each other?Actually, I don't think I've ever seen him being rude.
Actually, I don't think I've ever seen him being rude or annoying.
I'm not an atheist, but I am not a believer in God either?
Its like being an undecided voter because they don't think they can ever find out enough about the candidates to make an informed decision.
*opens can of worms*
I take issue with that, because oh crap, there is a huge elephant over there, look!
The elephant is the flipside to that coin. The bitterness between people it can also cause, and the reason to start wars religion provides.
Just making a point.
So what I think we all can agree on and conclude with is that:
There are plenty of deep theists, but the average atheist will obviously be deeper than the average theist.
What a load of manure.
Statistically why don't you think it's true? And by "deeper" I was thinking "intellectualism" not other kinds of deepness that someone might conjure.
How is that inherently wrong? Agnosticism, is in my opinion, the only right way to go, quite contrary to your opinion.
Human beings will always be ignorant of the necessary knowledge to understand the over-arching impetus of the universe.
I find this entire conflict, in all of its small and great forms, through all of time, between theism and atheism to be unwinable because it is unknowable. It is one of the most pointless sources of conflict in the history of the human race.
The only wise thing to do is concede ignorance and stopping wasting so much life with this crap.
Just to possibly clear some things up; an atheist can just be someone who disbelieves in God(s), they don't necessarily deny it's existence.
I was not thinking of "deepness" either, I was thinking of scholarship and intellectualism. I think it is a very uninformed opinion to think that theists cannot be intellectually rigorous. Has no atheist heard of St. Thomas Aquinas?
I fail to see the difference. Agnosticism is a difference; but I see no distinction between disbelieving and denying existence.
If someone disbelieves in something, all they are doing is withholding belief in that thing. Is simply withholding belief intellectual vanity?
My "intellectual vanity" comment is about caring more for not looking silly than for taking a chance. It really doesn't connect to the disbelief vs. denial spectrum. I still don't see how withholding belief is not denying existence. Isn't that having your cake and eating it too?