Do you believe; and why?

[Lucidus]

(05-17-2019, 03:00 AM)Dill Wrote: LOL maybe somebody had some philosophy courses.  But why would existence "with dialogue" etc be meaningless? Or did the spell check crop your "without"?

I agree with much of what you say here, although I am a "strong atheist," not an agnostic. I would say there is quite a bit of evidence to support a belief there is no god, not simply a lack of evidence that there is one.  It's not a draw.

I think if someone says he/she is a Christian, then he/she has picked out a narrow band on the broad spectrum of human beliefs where one finds people who think Jesus is 1) the way to heaven or 2) at least the supreme ethical guide.  Muslims would be people who think jesus a prophet and Mohammed the final one--for the same god.

Thank you for catching that. Unfortunately, I can't blame it on spell check, as I simply left out the "out".

When you say you are not agnostic, that would imply that you think it can be "known" that there is or isn't a God. I'm curious as to how we can have knowledge beyond the phenomena of our experience within reality? That is to say, how can we "know" anything about the supernatural if we can't observe, examine or evaluate it? It would seem to me that we can't. If it can't be known or is yet to be known, it would seem that agnosticism would be your parent category, with atheism as the the chosen subset. Unless you're asserting that there is, or can be, knowledge of the supernatural that we can access to determine whether a God exists?

I would agree that there are certain evidences that seem to demonstrate a God is not necessary, and others that suggest that the actual concept of God is highly unlikely to be possible. However, I would not go as far as to say there is any  evidences that prove a God doesn't exist or can't exist.