Man Of Steel gets new Ink

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I've kind of been peeking in on the periphery of this conversation. I'm a bit of an MOS fan so you can take my view with a grain of salt. But if you really take a wide angle view of our world, if you can step back and really take stock of our strange universe... taking the position that there can be no metaphysical component to reality really strikes me as naive in the extreme. Just my 2 cents.

You must have peeked on the periphery of a different thread, MB. No one here's addressed metaphysics at all. This discussion is about willful ignorance and arrogance.

See, claiming with 100% certainty that your book - though riddled with historical/scientific inaccuracies, recycled mythology, and a multitude of inconsistencies, contradictions and logical impossibilities - is the inerrant, divinely-inspired Word of the one true God requires a shitload of both.

And dismissing all the other believers of all the other gods from all the other books of all the other religions (from time immemorial) with "I know Scripture is true because Scripture tells me that Scripture is true" isn't really the height of intellectual diligence/honesty or humility.

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That is why I am agnostic instead of atheist.

They're not mutually exclusive, as they answer different questions:

Do you know God exists? No = Agnostic

Do you believe God exists? No = Atheist

More specifically, though, atheism is merely an "I don't believe you've made your case" to any given god proposition. Agnosticism, on the other hand, is utterly meaningless. Everyone is agnostic - no one KNOWS the reality of any god.

[Shizzo]

They're not mutually exclusive, as they answer different questions:

Do you know God exists? No = Agnostic

Do you believe God exists? No = Atheist

More specifically, though, atheism is merely an "I don't believe you've made your case" to any given god proposition. Agnosticism, on the other hand, is utterly meaningless. Everyone is agnostic - no one KNOWS the reality of any god.

I Don't think that atheists believe that any higher being/power/force exists. They just think that it's a guaranteed dirt nap.

While I do not believe in organized religion or texts, I can't help but look into the night sky, and wonder why I am living on one of a trillion planets in the universe. Agnostics at least represent the middle ground.

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I Don't think that atheists believe that any higher being/power/force exists. They just think that it's a guaranteed dirt nap.

While I do not believe in organized religion or texts, I can't help but look into the night sky, and wonder why I am living on one of a trillion planets in the universe. Agnostics at least represent the middle ground.

I gave you the definitions. Agnostics represent every person who's ever breathed oxygen.

[Shizzo]

I gave you the definitions. Agnostics represent every person who's ever breathed oxygen.

Thank you, Jesus.

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I've kind of been peeking in on the periphery of this conversation. I'm a bit of an MOS fan so you can take my view with a grain of salt. But if you really take a wide angle view of our world, if you can step back and really take stock of our strange universe... taking the position that there can be no metaphysical component to reality really strikes me as naive in the extreme. Just my 2 cents.

Well if it's so naive, then why can't you set the record straight with some hardcore evidence?