Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.
Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.
Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.
Except that “I see no evidence for this” is not a belief, it’s the lack of belief. You are the one with the belief. A belief without any evidence to back it up.
I’m done. Clearly you don’t want to engage in this conversation with any kind of good faith. You can only engage on the gotchas, the easy talking points. Enjoy your life, friend.
“There is no evidence for your claims” is not a gotcha. “Lack of belief is not a belief” is also not a gotcha. They are just simple facts.
And no one here is asking to be converted. I don’t seek to make anyone believe anything, and I’d like the same respect - not trying to ALTER my worldview, simply understand it. I never claimed to not have a belief. I never claimed they were based on facts. I simply claimed that there are things that we cannot know, we are not equipped to know. Given that, we HAVE to take some things on faith alone, without evidence. In that regard, these are the conclusions I have personally arrived at. Anyone else will arrive at a different conclusion, because these things are inherently ambiguous, unable to be quantified, and reached through introspection. If you cannot see how simply saying “there’s no evidence” is pointless, frustrating, and outright rude, I don’t know what else to say.
Edit to add: earlier you replied to a couple paragraphs, quoting only the first sentence. Did you bother to read the rest of the post? It seems like it pretty well clears up what I mean when I say I see no reason not to. Is that all you’re stuck on? That I don’t see a reason right now to definitively believe or not believe in anything wrt God, spirituality, supernatural, etc?
I guess that was a lie.
Since I assume you can see you’re in an atheism community, I don’t know what else you expected. A warm welcome for your faith-based beliefs?
Buddy, we’re literally in a thread where someone asked what beliefs one might consider supernatural we have. I came here expecting a discussion, not someone trying to beat me with logic when it was never a competition.