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posted by [identity profile] l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com at 02:53am on 05/05/2008
Ben, while we're on it.

To all the Mr. Dawkins of the world...

"Fundamentalist Atheism" exists. It's beleiving that religion itself is, how you say, heretical, anathema, when you look at the world.

Rather than mainstream athiesm, which is just the reasonable belief that the evidence points to no religion being correct, and forswearing religion.

I'm raised Jewish, and mostly Buddist. Jews and Buddhists don't scare me.

Chasids and Pure Land Buddhists, on the otherhand...
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posted by [identity profile] indie-insurgent.livejournal.com at 02:58am on 05/05/2008
Dawkins actually has a scale for this, where one pole (which he does not count himself in) is "absolutely sure there is no god." He puts himself in the "Does not believe there is a god, and lives his life as though there was not one." That's a position most scientists who are atheists would take, I believe.
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posted by [identity profile] indie-insurgent.livejournal.com at 02:59am on 05/05/2008
And, for the record, the slot I'm in.
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posted by [identity profile] l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com at 04:16am on 07/05/2008
Fair enough.

I just beleive that there's enough order to the universe that acting as if there's a driving force behind it is practially useful.

I also think that the word God (or Buddha) can be defined as "The part of you that wants you to be a happy, moral person" without any loss of signal. But I'm just weird that way.
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