It has been a subtheme for skeptics here to assume that I am making fun of their intelligence, or mocking their intellect when I accuse them of being sloppy thinkers, anti-intellectual, or believing stupid stuff. It ain't so. It is in fact sheer logic.
Consider the following. It is only one of many clear, logical, astute, and sensible observations about the nature of unbelief and the intellectual despair that it will lead to if one is consistent.
I do take offense at the halfassed pseudointellectual pretentiousness that shows up here (and other places on the internet) which puffs up at being tough minded and "unconventional" (I have to laugh at that one.... and wonder what world they live in!) and stoic when all they have done is be shallow and sloppy thinking.
I hope this will provoke thought. It raises questions that you normally won't get in your bull sessions about God, especially for those who are eagerly searching for a justification for abandoning the remnants of a belief system they inherited from family/culture.
Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.
Consider the following. It is only one of many clear, logical, astute, and sensible observations about the nature of unbelief and the intellectual despair that it will lead to if one is consistent.
I do take offense at the halfassed pseudointellectual pretentiousness that shows up here (and other places on the internet) which puffs up at being tough minded and "unconventional" (I have to laugh at that one.... and wonder what world they live in!) and stoic when all they have done is be shallow and sloppy thinking.
I hope this will provoke thought. It raises questions that you normally won't get in your bull sessions about God, especially for those who are eagerly searching for a justification for abandoning the remnants of a belief system they inherited from family/culture.
Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.
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