I am not sure what to consider myself sometimes I think there's no god others I believe there might be "god" but definitely not any of the deities worshiped by our religions so, im kinda like an on/off deist/atheist .
Let them have it. Its only fair. I interested to see how irrational Christians and irrational atheist react. God forbid Muslims want a peace of it, though I don't Muslims put up statues and whatnots that often, if ever.
There isn't an atheist way. No more than there is a "unicorn-denialist" way. Would all people who questioned the existence of Unicorns subscribe to the same life philosophies and live the same way? No they wouldn't. It's the same with atheism.
Skepticism isn't about invariably believing only when presented with adequate proof. It's not about keeping faith to an absolute minimum in every aspect of life. It's about keeping faith to a minimum where it's unreasonable to hold to it any more than that. I have 'faith' that a chair won't collapse on me when I sit on it because from my experience, chairs that faulty are extremely rare. I have faith my mother loves me, because no sane human would've made the sacrifices she's made for me otherwise. These are instances where faith is reasonable to hold. God, on the other hand? Not so much...
D1 We know this Power had a Son who Died for our sins in bronzeage Palestine.
D2 This Power exists and Mohammed is his prophet
D3-2000 ................................................
Very particular is an understatement for the complexity of theist believe systems and doesnt include the actual daily intervention of said power.
C is Deist.
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Nixx is working from the only valid, testable premises theists offer. Nobody has ever been able to demonstrate actual deistic intervention, so those premises cannot be used.
However, the concept of universal uncertainty is well accepted, and that we function quite well despite that inherit uncertainty is obvious.
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Can we get some upvotes for the buddy christ? Just to stick it to both religious people and to athetists. Because it's a defamation of a religious character while still being religious. We get to upset everybody except those with a sense of humor.
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Can we please stop with the philosophy/theology and come up with even more crazy statues?
All hail Optimus!
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Since the conversation has basically turned into atheism vs various sects and bordering on flaming, again, I'm going to shut this down pre-emptively, since it isn't about the original story any more.