[extropy-chat] Atheists launch inquisition...

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Technotranscendence <neptune at superlink.net> wrote:> 
> Another one is belief without justification -- "firm belief in
> something for which there is no proof."  This could even meaning
> holding a believe that seems logically or evidentially consistent
> with the rest of one's beliefs, but for which there's no
> particular decesive proof or evidence for it one way or the other.
>  (An example could be belief that there's intelligent life on other
> worlds.  Notice that this isn't really all that radical a claim.)
> 
> A third and much more radical one is Tertullian's type of faith -- 
> believing something because it goes against proof and evidence -- 
> believing things because they are impossible or illogical, actually
> contradition logic and the evidence.  To put it bluntly: holding an
> irrational belief. 

Well, in that case I can clearly state that atheism is a tertullian
form of faith, particularly because it is inherently impossible to
prove a negative, i.e. it is impossible to prove the non-existence of
God. Ergo, atheists believe the impossible.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


	
		
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