"Apatheist", yes it is an actual term.
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"Apatheist", yes it is an actual term.
What's the dividing line between de facto and strong? How much you can bench press?
De facto atheist based on the poll definitions - "strong atheist" as defined in the poll is a foolish position requiring a negative proof. One can't get there by logic alone; such an aggressive assertion requires an emotional component that doesn't impress me.
There are a few different ways that I look at it:
1. From a scientific perspective, there is no proof, either way, so it is irrelevant.
2. From within a religious framework: If I do good things, I am a good person, and I presume would enter into Heaven when I die. If I do bad things, I would be damned. BUT, if I only do good things BECAUSE I would go to Heaven, or to avoid Hell, then I am selfish and a hypocrite, and the Bible specifies that hypocrisy is one of the worst sins. So the way I see it, I'll just live, be the best person I can be for my own sake and the sake of the people around me, and let the metaphysical sort itself out however it wants to. If I do that, and I die, and I end up before some pearly gates or whatever, and I am told that yes, I tried my best to be a good person, but because I refused to bend a knee to Someone in the process I am going to Hell, then I will go, and gladly. Because if the "powers of Good" are going to be all douche-y like that, then perhaps the "powers of Evil" aren't as bad as they are billed as, either!
2a. I'm an American, and I don't see where we should be bending a knee to anyone. If Jesus wants to show up and be buds, that's fine, but we fought a war to not have to call people things like "Lord".
3. We waste an awful lot of resources on worshipping things that we can't prove exist. Resources that, to be really ironic, could be used to help REAL people who really need help, which would be in adherence to what Jesus said we should be doing in the first place!
So I don't know, and I don't care. And I do it for Jesus.
My god could have made a rock that NONE of them could have bench pressed, but I'm afraid your Klingon there has already killed all of them.My god can bench press more than your god.
Godzilla Vs. Jesus? hmm don't seem to have that one in my collection
The sad thing is, that it took me 10 minutes to make this.
Godzilla Vs. Jesus? hmm don't seem to have that one in my collection
The sad thing is, that it took me 10 minutes to make this.
Well I enjoyed both pics.
If he/she/it/they actually show up and interfere directly and provably with the universe around me, then I would care. (But even then, I would not worship. See 2a, above. They will obey the law just like anyone else, or I'm calling the cops.
) But as it is, I have more important things to worry about.
Godzilla Vs. Jesus? hmm don't seem to have that one in my collection
The sad thing is, that it took me 10 minutes to make this.
oh, I assumed it was an existing macro. I was just kidding about the series though, how they seem to have "Godzilla Vs." just about everything.
I don't see why you would care about a god that doesn't appear to care about you.
Well, I don't really care about ST anymore
I'd be very happy to be an "apatheist" but a catholic school killed that for me.
I also care about singularities, but I doubt they care about me.
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