[ExI] atheism

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 13:03:56 UTC 2009


2009/12/28 Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com>

> There is ample evidence that belief regardless of evidence or argument is
> harmful.
>

Mmhhh. I would qualify that as an opinion of a moral duty to swear on the
truth of  unproved or disproved facts.

This has something to do with the theist objection that positively believing
that Allah does not "exist" would be a "faith" on an equally basis as their
own.

Now, I may well be persuaded that my cat is sleeping in the other room even
though no final evidence of the truth of my opinion thereupon is (still)
there, and to form thousand of such provisional or ungrounded - and often
wrong - beliefs is probably inevitable. But would I claim that such
circumstances are a philosophical necessity or of ethical relevance?
Obviously not...

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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