[ExI] Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn’t allow himself to hope
Ben Zaiboc
ben at zaiboc.net
Fri Aug 3 20:57:04 UTC 2018
>From
https://turingchurch.net/prisoner-of-bad-philosophy-carl-sagan-couldnt-allow-himself-to-hope-a037ba0705e6?gi=5f3557aa6264:
"... an atheist (one who knows that God doesn’t exist)"
That's not the correct definition of an atheist. Atheism isn't about
knowledge of gods, it's about belief in gods. Specifically, a lack of
belief in them. Which is a different thing to /knowing/ they don't exist.
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Ben Zaiboc
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