After all how can you know, unless you ... know?
2007-09-03 18:34:28 · 21 answers · asked by Mutations Killed Darwin Fish 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Atheist are simply stating their belief. No different than theists, except stheists base their beliefs on strong, credible, and proven evidence, while theists are the ones who appear to be claiming omniscience with no evidence for a retarded story.
2007-09-03 18:41:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The idea of God, and the supernatural - a Greater Reality that is more important than nature and which preceded it, explains nothing by declaring that anything one doesn't understand is something He or his minions are responsible for.
For instance, the idea of a supernatural source of Evil , the bad 'ol Deb'bil, means that no human agency can reform the evil around us, because its true causes of Good and Evil are in another Reality.
Since everything is controlled from Offstage, this was, and is still, a major cause of the Fultural, moral, and spiritual stagnation of Mankind. Only when these forces of stagnation were challanged and partially overcome was further progress possible.
True or False: Small invisible elves are on the shoulders of everyone telling them to do either good or evil?
Adam and Eve allegedly (was tempted to (decided) that their descendants could and should discern good from evil, and this decision was the alleged cause of the Fall of Man.
Now, the mainstream religions are telling us to choose between the Forces of Good (God) and Evil (Satan), and enlist in One or the Other's Grand Armies for an Armageddon (End Times War) between the two opposing sides. -- Go figure,
I've chosen to dodge this draft for a war that is both incomprehensible and meaningless!
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2007-09-04 02:16:03 · answer #2 · answered by sheik_sebir 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as much as theists are claiming ignorance through their belief in an omniscient God.
2007-09-04 01:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by simon l 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Omniscient is knowing everything all at one time. Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about a character including thoughts, feelings, life and the universe, etc. No one is omniscient.
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2007-09-04 01:50:22 · answer #4 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question just never goes away and it seems so straight forward to me.
You can't KNOW there isn't a god any more than you can KNOW many fantastic things. *You* don't know if Hercules really existed or if the moon might really be made of green cheese. However, you can know with a reasonable certainty.
I know, with a reasonable certainty, that there is no god. I know this like you know that Angelina Jolie isn't writing you a fan letter right now. Me, not being able to travel to other dimensions and look for god, and you, not being in Angelina's bedroom, can't say its a fact, but we can "know" for all intents and purposes.
2007-09-04 01:39:56 · answer #5 · answered by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I am not omniscience but it's not my problem and I don't think that I make a problem to some one by say there is no God. It is a problem of someone that not agree with me to show their God, if they fail so let me still say as it was.
2007-09-04 02:26:09 · answer #6 · answered by Golden Experience 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May we assume instead that believers...know? Atheists speak in much more humble terms about the limits of their wisdom and their place in the universe than believers could ever claim to, after all, believers claim to understand the creator of the universe and his eternal plan for everything. Believers are the ones who claim to know with no tangible evidence to support it.
2007-09-04 01:48:29 · answer #7 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I tell you 'there are no leprechauns', do you also think I'm claiming omniscience?
How many of the following gods do you claim don't exist?
http://www.godchecker.com
2007-09-04 01:39:14 · answer #8 · answered by wondermus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe not omniscience but it's definately a leap of faith to claim that anybody doesn't exist. Non-existence can never be proven.
2007-09-04 01:44:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I lack belief in gods because there is no evidence. And I think it is highly unlikely.
Are you claiming omnipotence for not only "knowing" that a god exists, but that it has specific names and practices?
Right back at you.
2007-09-04 01:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋