2007-03-12 09:25:47 · 25 answers · asked by God Still Speaks Through His Word! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My point...(coming soon).
2007-03-12 09:32:38 · update #1
John Doe 1st - Very peaceful answer, man. I feel the peace in your heart.
2007-03-12 09:48:35 · update #2
My point (and thanks to all of you, honest atheists, who agreed you don't know everything):
So, it is possible that in that percentage of things unknown to you, God actually does exist and you just don't know it yet.
How many of you are honest enough to agree with that?
2007-03-13 05:35:16 · update #3
No....but what's your point?
2007-03-12 09:30:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all,
and worse (or better) than that, some of the things I thought I knew turned out to be wrong, so I've had to change my mind a few times.
And I'm taking a guess at your follow up point:
I'm pretty certain Bertrand Russell has already dealt with it.
2007-03-12 16:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
On the contrary. Atheism is about doubt. Atheism means that I don't take anything for true just because someone tells me so. I want reasons. I prefer the better answer to the poorer one. And if there are no satisfying answers, I prefer to live without an answer instead of living with an unfounded one. There is always room for discussion, and for better ideas. There is no fixed "truth".
2007-03-12 16:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, it's rather obvious where you're going with this. No, I don't. Does that mean there's no such thing as "false", and I have to believe anything that anyone ever tells me? I don't think so. You go ahead and try to live like that for a while.
Edit: "My point...(coming soon)."
Don't bother, we've already heard this argument many, many times. "I can't say that god doesn't exist because I have to be omniscient to know for sure." It's a lame argument, as I've already explained.
2007-03-12 16:30:05 · answer #4 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First, I'm not an atheist.
I'm also not a pretentious born-again.
I'm a loving husband and father and grandfather who has learned to live with a LOT of people who THINK they know everything, and who are just dying to tell the rest of humanity all about it.
I've met atheists who are also kind and loving mothers, fathers, and partners, who wouldn't think of cheating another human being or harming them, who have a sense of compassion and sympathy.
I've met "Christians" who think that the Lord has given them carte blance to get in people's faces and blatantly insult them and incite them to violence, only so that they could then go running to the authorities like "martyrs."
The whole thing makes me want to puke.
If you have a belief system, if you have a theology that "works" for you, then for God's sake (or someone's) be content within it, and stop poking virtual sticks in others' eyes.
Be at peace, get over yourselves, and leave others to their own peace.
2007-03-12 16:42:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nope
2007-03-12 16:29:30 · answer #6 · answered by Alex 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nope, an d I am perfectly fine with that. I don't need a definite answer to a question that is impossible to answer. I'm cool with it.
2007-03-12 16:30:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. We don't. Only Christians claim that someone, or something can know everything.
And don't use this in that silly "you have to know everything in the universe to know there is no God" argument.
2007-03-12 16:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Nope. A little more than I knew yesterday, but certainly not everything.
2007-03-12 16:30:10 · answer #9 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's an old one off a Murphy's Law Poster I live by :
We don't know 1/10th of 1% of anything.
Although our knowledge is limited, we do know what we know.
2007-03-12 16:32:38 · answer #10 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope.
This reeks of bait question, but that's cool. We have an answer for the next if it is.
2007-03-12 16:29:56 · answer #11 · answered by Snark 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋