[ExI] Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn’t allow himself to hope

[Giulio Prisco]

Ben, then how to explain the taliban-like intolerance of militant atheists?
The only explanation I can find is that they thinkvthey know.

On 2018. Aug 3., Fri at 23:21, Ben Zaiboc <ben at zaiboc.net> wrote:

> 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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