I'd also like to add that the so-called "New Age" and "Atheism" are not perpendicular to each other. I'm of the opinion that magick should be taught in public schools. — Bret Bernhoft
I used to consider myself a positive (or gnostic) atheist for decades and I don't recall ever having "faith" in either "scientific materialism" or "logical positivism". The phrase "atheistic faiths" is patently oxymoronic. Besides, a 'working assumption' (e.g. scientific materialism) is not synonymous with 'faith in mysteries' (or miracles or magic or supernatural entities). Apples and oranges. Your incoherent preface, sir, discourages me from watching your video. :confused: — 180 Proof
It'd be fine to teach about all religions in public schools, but I don't think it'd be wise or proper to teach it as binding or true. I suspect you wouldn't want bible-thumpers teaching biology, for similar reasons.
2h — Pie
I'm of the opinion that magick should be taught in public schools. — Bret Bernhoft
is it prudent/wise to believe in God (re Pascal's wager)? — Agent Smith
Ask the religious. They "believe in goober" for the sake of argument / discussion. :roll: — 180 Proof
That requires some faith, wouldn't you agree? — Agent Smith
I stand by this excerpt of an old post, but I'm open to any reasonable defense of Dawkins as 'thinker' (not as scientist).In any case, IMO, Dawkins embarrasses himself with such unnuanced and shallow misreadings of philosophy as well as (biblical) theology, and is not taken very seriously outside of evolutionary biology. — 180 Proof
atheistic faiths (faith in no god) or scientific materialism and logical positivism. — intrapersona
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
How do you know there is such a "spark"?Nothing about the spark of life is reflected in atheism. — neonspectraltoast
Life is evidence of the divine. Nothing about the spark of life is reflected in atheism. It's just a dearth of rational thought masquerading as science. — neonspectraltoast
You might misunderstand the subject of magick and/or Paganism? — Bret Bernhoft
Why?I'm of the opinion that magick should be taught in public schools. — Bret Bernhoft
Atheists are just as capable of love and a sense of the numinous as any fundamentalist or New Ager. — Tom Storm
theism generally holds that there is no good reason to believe in any gods. It does not say there are no gods (a positive claim). That's all there need be to it. There is no faith in 'no god' just as you or others do not have faith in 'no Loch Ness Monster'. — Tom Storm
I'm of the opinion that magick should be taught in public schools. — Bret Bernhoft
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