• @paddirn
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    39 months ago

    To me, I’ve seen how Douglas Adams described his own atheism, and that’s just not for me.

    Adams described himself as a “radical atheist”, adding “radical” for emphasis so he would not be asked if he meant agnostic. He told American Atheists that this conveyed the fact that he really meant it.

    I certainly lean towards atheism, but I can’t say with 100% certainty that a God can be ruled out. God could still be a complete asshole who likes torturing his creations, or more like a Lovecraftian Eldritch god who doesn’t even register our existence, those are still possibilities.

    • Then what point is there to calling them a god? Leaving the possibility open to their existence is logical, it doesn’t mean you can’t highlight the improbability.

      I think Terry Pratchett highlights this well in Disc World with his atheists. They deny gods are real in a world where gods clearly exist and manifest physically. When the inverse is true it borders on insanity.