To have some fun, you seem to be claiming to know that noone can have ultimate knowledge of their surroundings, why? You know that noone knows? Or you know that noone can know if they know or not? Or maybe you just don't know huh?
lol, i would say that i know noone knows. if you new everything that surrounded you, you may as well be god-like. i don't think it is in anyones capacity to know that much knowldege actively. even before that could be attempted you'd have to learn that knowledge from somewhere. last time i looked, our collective knowledge as humans of how things work around us is pretty tiny. i think it is a pretty safe assumption to say that noone can have an ultimate knowledge of their surroundings.
That leads to a claim that there is no God, because you can't 'see' the evidence, of course from your text you don't seem to be one of them - you're just unsure - smart guy/girl.
yup. while i'll never claim definitively that there is no god, from my personal experience, if there is one, he is not interested in me or just doesn't exist. i was born with innate skepticism, i've had no personal encounters or feelings that many have claimed to have had (i've had similar feelings, just never linked to a being) by god and i'm skeptical of those who claim such experiences, i've had bad incidences with christianity which just didn't help, and from the knowledge that i have, i would conclude that god is highly improbable.
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yeah, i guess the thing which we most strive for in our lives, acceptance, is for me not found within a religious group. in truth i never made it into my one of my friends "groups" because i didn't share their beliefs. i'm different from them and they never accepted me, purely on belief. it kinda sucked, but it was no great loss. it just helped me define myself by concluding that i wouldn't want to be a part of something that in some way influenced my actions towards others.
The definition of atheism arises from the fact that that atheists argue there is no God from what they believe is an 'ultimate reality' - the scientific 'reality'. Therefore atheists are religious in their belief. There is no atheism without the religious atheist arguing from his idea of what an ulitmate reality is, no?
mmm, i dunno. i don't like your use of 'an ultimate reality'. i believe what i believe because it makes the most sense to me. i defend what i believe because who likes being told they're wrong? i argue against theism in part because of past incidences with religion and in part because what i believe theism does to a person's thought.
in the end i would say that atheism is really not a religion. besides, in the end it is all terms humans have made up that have no meaning, they only help us define ourselves in a world/universe/reality that we know little about.