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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
now it's a very fucking quotable post. really, it's fucking great. it's a perfect little verbal bullet.
what you're describing i think is agnosticism, not atheism. agnostics profess their ignorance, whereas atheists are more firmly in the "no god" camp; having said that, the denial of the existence of gods is not so much a faith as a reasonable inference from experience. still, those sorts of inferences are often challenged by shit of this type:
no! that can't exist!
it does require a conviction of sorts to say "that which i don't know, cannot exist", but i wouldn't call it "faith". refer to atheist vs. agnostic position.
it's actually not easier, but it's more honest-- big truths tend to make people develop headaches, mistrust of authority, and all sorts of socially inconvenient attitudes and behaviors, so it's easier to shove all the mysterious dirt under the god carpet. |
Agnostics tend to be on the fence, not really sure either way. I'm damned near sure god doesn't exist, just not enough to say "I know for a fact...". I don't trust anyone that claims to know for a fact either way.
Yeah, the whole believing in god thing tends to be convenient for most. It also causes a lot of trouble.