I understand the idea that we do not have any reason at all to believe in God, but of course I say that we don't have any reason to not believe in God. Please note that I'm abandoning the Western sense of God. Feel free to interpret this as "divine force" of any kind.
Furthermore, I see people asking agnostics if they withhold judgments from everything about which they are uncertain. This isn't quite fair because it's comparing the material world to the "spiritual" world. It's possible that everything around us is an illusion, but at least we perceive it and make conclusions based on it. There is no such perception of God to my knowledge.
It also seems to me that people who claim to be atheists are actually agnostic... why abandon the latter title for the former? True atheists do exist, just as true theists exist.
Really, the purpose of this question is to find out if I'm missing some big reasons why atheists deny the possibility of any divine force.
2007-06-08
14:02:16
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