Disbelieving is one thing, knowing is another. We are talking things above our level of comprehension.
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Replying to @CaptainNemo3000
No-one claims to know the origins of everything. Imagining a human-like being - creating, reasoning, moral - did it ...1/2
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Replying to @HPluckrose @CaptainNemo3000
seems exactly like something humans with much less comprehension of the universe than we do would come up with! 1/2
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Replying to @HPluckrose
How about a little humility admitting, "'I know that I know nothing"
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Replying to @CaptainNemo3000
!!! You realise I'm the one *not* claiming to know an origin, meaning & purpose for everything?!
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Why then defend atheism which is a religion of those that claim to "know". Agnosticism is the wise man's "religion".
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Replying to @CaptainNemo3000
Because that's not what atheists generally say. I posted the Dawkins scale. Most of us ( including him) are a 6.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There are all levels "deniers" but since we can't know, it's all about believing in NO GOD, thus atheism is a "religion"
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Replying to @CaptainNemo3000
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@CaptainNemo3000 If you define "atheist" as 'person who believes gods not to exist' & 'religion' as 'believing things not to exist' 1/22 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HPluckrose
So far I haven't defined anything, I pointed out that atheism is believing in disbelieving in God thus a religion of a kind.
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That's defining both atheism & religion in unusual ways. I'm not sure you're addressing beliefs which really exist.
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