While You Were Sleeping - Told or Known: Atheism is faith.

November 23, 2011

whileyouweresleeping:

So let’s think about it dispassionately: what is atheism? Some define it as the absence of faith. I’ve certainly experienced it as a void, an empty spot where my spirituality would’ve been. However, if we stick to strict scientific reasoning, if we remain intellectually…

And I seriously doubt you’ll find a single atheist who is interested in disproving the existence of anything supernatural.

Rational thought requires only those who would make extraordinary or fantastical claims to offer up proof of what they say. As an atheist, I am no more obligated to punch holes in the idea of a supernatural being than I am to disprove the existence of elves. Till the day comes that you can have your deity knock on my front door and introduce him or herself, then he or she quite simply doesn’t exist.

That is perfectly well and good, of course. But again, the burden-of-proof rationale (on whom it falls, that is) does not make you any more right, or spiritual people any more wrong. My point is that there is not (not yet at least) a way to demonstrate one or the other. If we stick to what is demonstrable, then we’re all on the same boat.

— From SF.

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