[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2014-07-23 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
That's a sociological problem, not epistemological. The reality or not of their god makes no difference to their actions in the name of said god.

It's important that you realise I'm not defending the religious here.

[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2014-07-24 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not defending the epistemological possibility of a God; I'm critiquing the epistemological flaws in your own position. This is what so many atheists don't get. Your own knowledge claims have precisely fuck all to do with the position of other people. When criticised for calling their belief "knowledge" they come back with comments about religious people. Those comments are all completely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what *you* are claiming to know, and I'm saying that I don't think that you have sound reasons for claiming knowledge of a fact that cannot be even close to be proven. You have a belief, not knowledge. Claiming you have knowledge of a lack of a deity undermines all of the knowledge we have gained from the scientific method. "Evolution is just a theory", uh yeah, but you're misunderstanding the word "theory". It's the same thing.

[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2014-07-25 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
You've jumped into a conversation about whether or not atheism requires belief. I'm sorry if I've applied that to you, I didn't notice that the person I was talking to changed.

I agree with your position as stated above completely.

[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2014-07-26 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
It's pseudoscience. I'm sure you're well aware of the harm that can cause.

[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2014-07-29 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
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My experience is that the Dawkins school of atheism usually sits more on the right than the left.

[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2014-07-30 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
It's what I've been talking about the entire time...