First of all, I have more in common with atheists than religious people, so my intention isn’t to come here and attack, I just want to hear your opinions. Maybe I’m wrong, I’d like to hear from you if I am. I’m just expressing here my perception of the movement and not actually what I consider to be facts.
My issue with atheism is that I think it establishes the lack of a God or gods as the truth. I do agree that the concept of a God is hard to believe logically, specially with all the incoherent arguments that religions have had in the past. But saying that there’s no god with certainty is something I’m just not comfortable with. Science has taught us that being wrong is part of the process of progress. We’re constantly learning things we didn’t know about, confirming theories that seemed insane in their time. I feel like being open to the possibilities is a healthier mindset, as we barely understand reality.
In general, atheism feels too close minded, too attached to the current facts, which will probably be obsolete in a few centuries. I do agree with logical and rational thinking, but part of that is accepting how little we really know about reality, how what we considered truth in the past was wrong or more complex than we expected
I usually don’t believe there is a god when the argument comes from religious people, because they have no evidence, but they could be right by chance.
Yeah, that’s my problem. Whatever probability they assign to it would a belief. They don’t really know. As you said, everyone assigns a different probability to it, so who is right?
Isn’t just easier to accept ignorance instead of believing something that we can’t even begin to understand?
its the same for believers. crises of faith. sermons about doubt. All recognition the faith is not 100%. Its like telling theists you mainly agree with them but they should have a bit more doubt and accept more that there could be no god.
Yes, I’d tell them that if their faith wasn’t blind, which most of them agree with, so there’s nothing to argue there. The difference is that the belief of an atheist is rooted in reason. My point is that human reason is not advanced enough to actually grasp these matter, so having a rational opinion about something we can’t rationally understand is pretty strange.