Baptist church tears down Jesus statue

[steve_bank]

Don't see where you got that. I am neither, I am a skeptic. Atheism is too much of an ideology and a cause not unlike theism. I reject the atheist theist dichotomy and the question itself as meaningless. The Abrahamic god can neither be proven nor disproven, both sides try hard.

Specific claims of theists can be subject to validation, like young Earth creationism.

 

[Jobar]

Don't see where you got that. I am neither, I am a skeptic. Atheism is too much of an ideology and a cause not unlike theism. I reject the atheist theist dichotomy and the question itself as meaningless. The Abrahamic god can neither be proven nor disproven, both sides try hard.

Specific claims of theists can be subject to validation, like young Earth creationism.

I consider atheism to be skepticism applied to the question of the existence of God, or gods.

Some people prefer to identify as agnostic, and I cheerfully admit I have no certain knowledge concerning the existence/nonexistence of something that might justifiably be called a god. OTOH, I do not believe such a being exists; so until someone can show me evidence for a god, I'm a-theist, without theistic belief.

I don't think it's possible to be a thoroughgoing skeptic and also believe in some form of god. (Unless you want to define 'god' as 'the universe' or 'the totality of existence'; but that means there's no being that is more God than any other being.)

 

[steve_bank]

Don't see where you got that. I am neither, I am a skeptic. Atheism is too much of an ideology and a cause not unlike theism. I reject the atheist theist dichotomy and the question itself as meaningless. The Abrahamic god can neither be proven nor disproven, both sides try hard.

Specific claims of theists can be subject to validation, like young Earth creationism.

I consider atheism to be skepticism applied to the question of the existence of God, or gods.

Some people prefer to identify as agnostic, and I cheerfully admit I have no certain knowledge concerning the existence/nonexistence of something that might justifiably be called a god. OTOH, I do not believe such a being exists; so until someone can show me evidence for a god, I'm a-theist, without theistic belief.

I don't think it's possible to be a thoroughgoing skeptic and also believe in some form of god. (Unless you want to define 'god' as 'the universe' or 'the totality of existence'; but that means there's no being that is more God than any other being.)

I started a thread to answer.