My answer to this question is 'No'.
Yet the opposite is said so often about atheism here that if I had a dollar for each time I saw this tautology I'd be rivalling Bill Gates by now...
If it's an agnostic saying it, no problem. They're speaking from their own philosophical perspective, and they're keeping true to their beliefs.
But it tends to be theists themselves who say it. How is it possible for a theist to say this with a straight face? Or must we reduce the entire R&S section to 'There are no theists. There are no atheists. All people are by definition agnostic.'?
Of course, you may want to offer 'proof' of God's existence. Inevitably it will fail tests of reasoned argument. If you say to me 'I don't have infinite knowledge but I don't need it because I believe there is a God', I will respect you. Why is the same courtesy so rarely offered to atheists?
2006-06-21
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