Knowing There's No God Vs. Believing There's No God

MeAgain · Jul 17, 2022

Harbal said: ↑

Bertrand Russell spoke of a hypothetical teapot that orbits the sun, and made the point that your inability to prove it isn't there is no reason to think it is.
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“Many Orthodox speak as if it is up to skeptics to refute accepted dogmas rather than dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between Earth and Mars there is a porcelain teapot revolving around the sun in an elliptical orbit, no one could refute my claim provided I took care to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that since my assertion cannot be refuted it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, one would rightly think that I am talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot was affirmed in ancient books, taught as sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled in the minds of children at school, reluctance to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and would entitle the skeptic to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened era or of the Inquisitor in an earlier era. ~ Bertrand Russell. 1952.
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themnax · Jul 28, 2022

what is ridiculous, however unsupported by the familiar, is not that self aware beings, who are neither physical nor imaginary might exist.
what is ridiculous, is the notion, that their existence in any way, depends upon, what we tell each other to pretend.

denying the reality of the diversity of the possible, denying the goodness of the reality of the diversity of the possible.
denying the unknown being unknown, denying the goodness of the unknown being unknown,
THOSE are the sins of religion, that are at the very least, dishonest.

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