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Originally Posted by marmalade  In my first post, I was using atheism in its more common meaning. I'm aware of weak atheism and its the label that most closely approximates my position. |
Then please from making future false generalisations.
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I agree. I can't absolutely prove anything nor even prove the clear probability of one perspective over another. I tend to doubt everything including reality, but I do trust the combined efforts of my intuition and rational mind. I don't need to claim knowledge nor ignorance. I don't need to claim belief nor disbelief. Life is what it is, and I try my best to simply accept it as it is. Nonetheless, I do have strong suspicions about many things that come close to a sense of knowing or believing.
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Renderator has madea good observation by pointing out one of the assumptions that everything is based on. In all thought processes, atheist and theist, one finds that there is at some point at where illogic prevails. It is what both faith and science are based on.
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Originally Posted by renderator The absence of God is just a necessity to be rational. One cannot prove anything without having taken this premise. Because if God exists, any miricle is possible and you can be sure in absolutely nothing, you even cannot be sure that Newton's Law works right now as ever, because you cannot garantee, that God has not changed the law right in this moment.
Atheism is just a necessity to be rational, that's why science has to be atheistic. But science is not religion. The same way atheism is not also. |
No science is not atheistic, nor should it be. Any conclusions drawn from observations do not lend credence to any particular belief or lack of. Science consists of explaining natural phenomena, and God is something science as of now, can not explain.
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Yes, I know it. But what does it mean? Can I find an agnostic Christian, for example?
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Perhaps you can, but'm sure they're an obscure bunch.
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So what's the difference between God and leprechauns? Why is God better to exist than leprechauns? I can see no difference between them. Both are the product of imagination.
By the way Santa Claus is a Christian saint, so he is as real as God for Christians.
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I'd like to see the evidence you have to substantiate your claim that God is a product of the imagination. You must have something solid other than your opinion. Honestly, there isn't much of a difference between God and a Leprechaun.