[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.

-- 
Ben Zaiboc




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