Timeline for Regarding Atheism and skeptics
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| Dec 22, 2015 at 16:23 | comment | added | immortal squish | No, atheism does not have any flaws. Even if there is a god, the logically correct response to (even just a perceived) lack of evidence is to not believe. Of course, atheists themselves have plenty of flaws (and so do many of their ideas/opinions). | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 23:24 | comment | added | 201044 | To analyse something skeptically is to look at it's possible flaws. Does atheism have any flaws? | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 4:55 | comment | added | 201044 | Has any reputable materialist philosopher criticized atheism or agnosticism? | |
| Feb 14, 2015 at 6:32 | comment | added | 201044 | Has any materialist philosopher criticized atheism and / or agnosticism in a negative way? | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 6:04 | comment | added | 201044 | Has any NON-religious writers criticized Atheism or Agnosticism in a negative way? The question still stands. (The idea of a finite life-span is scary to many people whether they are religious or not.) | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 17:46 | comment | added | immortal squish | Sorry, you seem to be overgeneralizing viewpoints that cannot be discussed without being careful with nuance. Atheism/Agnosticism are specific viewpoints about the existence of god(s). That's it. What that means in someone's day-to-day life is entirely a personal matter. As a (soft) atheist, I would tell those depressed/suffering people that they should believe whatever helps them get through the day. I know other atheists who say religion is probably why they're depressed in the first place. Neither view is more than opinion. Neither view is the "Atheist/Agnostic" position. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:04 | comment | added | 201044 | Has any NON-religious writer written about how atheism or agnosticism is illogical or is a cruel philosophy. Was it Sartre or Nietzche who said something like 'Life is cruel, brutish and short'. And was it Schopenhauer ( forgive spelling) who implied life was finite and problematic yet this 'finiteness' should be embraced in order to 'live' well? I wouldn't tell these depressing viewpoints to poor and suffering people that are struggling with existence . That after all their struggles they're just going to 'disappear' (after death). | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 4:20 | comment | added | 201044 | The rejection of many or all religions is a non-evidence based assertion and many philosophers don't have a problem with promoting this. Why can't a position that rejects various ideas be skeptically analysed. ANY set of ideas can be skeptically analysed. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 5:17 | comment | added | 201044 | What if one applies the skeptical analysis point of view to the proposition there is no after-life? Have any skeptic-philosophers done this? | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 5:13 | comment | added | 201044 | Are there any skeptical views about there being no after-life among non-religious writers or philosophers? Or do all non-religious writers or philosophers automatically believe there is no afterlife? | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 1:52 | comment | added | 201044 | When someone says some statement is a non-evidence based assertion they're saying the statement has absolutely NO possible evidence in favour of it , right? Doesn't the statement 'non-evidence based assertion' practically disposes of a statement before it 'ever get's started'. | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 1:46 | comment | added | 201044 | Also I'm not talking about any deities or the supernatural ; have any NON-religious writers or academics wrote about interesting criticisms about atheism or agnosticism? | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 10:35 | comment | added | robert bristow-johnson | all's i'm saying is that believers in universes that we cannot possibly ever sense the presence of with a physical device are also expressing a "faith [in] evidence of things not seen." no one will be building a Multiverse-measuring device, just as no one will be building a God-measuring device. yet the faith expressed in one belief is somehow considered more reasonable than the faith expressed in the other. an honest skeptic would not do that. and i would equate solipsism with either. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 23:41 | comment | added | immortal squish | Same for any of the (many) multiverse hypothesis. You can believe your hypothesis is correct, without saying you "know" it is correct. I believe you are not some complex AI impersonating a human, but I don't KNOW it. buzzle.com/articles/… | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 23:37 | comment | added | immortal squish | You have to be careful there. Certainly, some individuals may hold some all sorts of incorrect/non-evidence based views, but there is a LARGE difference between the hard atheist stance of "there is no god" and a scientific hypothesis such as String Theory. String Theory is not a scientific theory (yet), is not thought to be "definitely true", and is not held to be a better model for the universe than the "Standard Model". Proponents of String Theory aren't saying "this is definitely how the universe funtions," they're saying it may be a better model for describing the universe. One day. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 22:55 | comment | added | robert bristow-johnson | a "hard athiest" also makes non-evidence based assertions. string theory makes non-evidence based assertions. so is any belief in a Multiverse. if one is even-handed, it is definitely possible to skeptically analyze atheism just as it is for solipsism or theism or whatever other -ism that is out there. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 22:46 | comment | added | immortal squish | Agreed, but I believe skeptical commentaries surrounding such "follow on" ideas is generally common. I'd say it naturally follows from there being evidence/statistics to parse and debate, as opposed to the evidence-lite "there is no god" assertion. Specifically concerning your example: csicop.org/si/show/… atheists-for-jesus.com ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_atheism_2_0 | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 20:27 | comment | added | user12066 | Some atheists make non-evidence based assertions, e.g. that removing religion would make the world less violent (I have to admit I'm rather skeptical in that regard). So one can at least be skeptical about things that purportedly follow from atheism. Inasafar as atheism is simply the absence of belief it sounds like you're right (but then I'm afraid this comes down to semantics, i.e. how the OP defines "skeptically"). | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 19:43 | history | answered | immortal squish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |