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Originally posted by SpaceJ
Your turn to provide proof. Show me a definition that says that is what agnostic means.
Originally posted by davespanners
reply to post by Cosmic.Artifact
Do you ever plan on answering
Originally posted by SpaceJ
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
She should be a teacher.
Originally posted by davespanners
reply to post by Cosmic.Artifact
So not to anyone who actually asks you a question you can't answer then.
Originally posted by Cosmic.Artifact
are Atheist over-opinionated and not entirely as intelligent as they wish to appear ? Arrogance is the first wall of defense for a very insecure person... I believe Einstein once said he disliked talking to Atheist because all they ever talk about is God.
are Atheists trapped in the same arrogant behavior that fundamentalist wackos perform ?
The truth is, most atheists are not nice, especially those that are active on the Internet...
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
Originally posted by davespanners
Why don't we have a review of this.
Did you provide a single bit of reliable evidence to support a single claim that you made in this post yet?
Lets start with a few more quotes from Einstein shall we
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Yes.
I am arrogant enough to believe the entire universe wasn't made for my personal viewing pleasure.
Yep, I am arrogant.
Originally posted by SpaceJ
Well you don't have to read that link I posted but it's just writings from people like Mark Twain, Einstein, Russel, etc. Good stuff to read because they are all atheists but they were also very respectful and didn't claim to know for certain so they were agnostic on the knowledge aspect.
I feel that link shows that the answer to your posted question is no.
But you never answered my question, which was would you call an agnostic atheist arrogant?
Originally posted by SpaceJ
So what more could you be getting at with this question/post???
Originally posted by Cosmic.Artifact
Originally posted by SpaceJ
Well you don't have to read that link I posted but it's just writings from people like Mark Twain, Einstein, Russel, etc. Good stuff to read because they are all atheists but they were also very respectful and didn't claim to know for certain so they were agnostic on the knowledge aspect.
I feel that link shows that the answer to your posted question is no.
I highly doubt it because if they had chose to study religion as well as they have perused their other fields then I believe they would have know the truth... No one who refutes or does not believe knows the truth well enough to deny it.
Einstein is a hero of mine and he played it quite cool... (God does not play dice)
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Letter to an atheist (1954) as quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1981) edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman ISBN 0691023689
But you never answered my question, which was would you call an agnostic atheist arrogant?
my opinion of course is that Agnosticism is a road to somewhere and has noting to do with Atheism, these two words combined mean very little to me...
It is like a kid wanting to break away and move out of the parents house but still wanting to get money from mom and dad, and having a place to go if the bottom drops out from under them.
there is no middle ground for any length of time... the switch is either off or it is on.