[extropy-chat] Atheists launch inquisition...

[Samantha Atkins]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:
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>>From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
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>>>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
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>>>God. Ergo, atheists believe the impossible.
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>>And one can just as clearly state that amermaidism, asantaclausism,
>>aleprechaunism, amoonmaidenism, apurplepeopleism, afirebirism,
>>atoothfairism
>>(and any other such "faith" driven convictions) are Tertullian.
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>>By the way, Mike, which god are you talking about here ...?
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>Doesn't matter. Your reducto ad absurdum is irrelevant, because they
>are all subunits of the broad atheism/theism faith duality set. The
>only POV outside that set is agnosticism, which essentially tells both
>sides that none of them know enough to justify a claim one way or the other.
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Do I properly understand you to be saying that to be objective one must 
be agnostic regarding the existence of leprechauns, moon maidens, tooth 
fairies and so on as well as regarding the existence of God?    Is this 
really what you believe or how you conduct yourself intellectually?   

- samantha