Wow 🤩 what an adventure! The event sounds like a funner version of an atheist gathering. My faith is not super strong now and frankly the most interesting reading is not from religious texts. As cringe as atheists are, the Christian Zionist doomsday cult is more crazy
From one perspective everyone should be an agnostic since none of us, including the Pope and your taxi driver, knows for sure what lies beyond. Yet believers and atheists don't, or at least shouldn't, claim to KNOW what lies beyond. They only only state what they BELIEVE is true i.e. what to them seems most likely. Yet to take the position that the existence of God or His non-existence are both equally likely, as agnostics do, is for me to be overly scrupulous. If we are going to take epistemological humility seriously, as I think agnostics do, then life would seem so full of uncertainties that it would become almost impossible to place one foot in front of the other!
I tend to have views on pretty much everything, even things I know little about, yet as long as these tentertive views don't harden into a dogma impermeable to the integration of new information, that seems absolutely fine to me and even preferable to a constant state of uncertainty.
Wow 🤩 what an adventure! The event sounds like a funner version of an atheist gathering. My faith is not super strong now and frankly the most interesting reading is not from religious texts. As cringe as atheists are, the Christian Zionist doomsday cult is more crazy
From one perspective everyone should be an agnostic since none of us, including the Pope and your taxi driver, knows for sure what lies beyond. Yet believers and atheists don't, or at least shouldn't, claim to KNOW what lies beyond. They only only state what they BELIEVE is true i.e. what to them seems most likely. Yet to take the position that the existence of God or His non-existence are both equally likely, as agnostics do, is for me to be overly scrupulous. If we are going to take epistemological humility seriously, as I think agnostics do, then life would seem so full of uncertainties that it would become almost impossible to place one foot in front of the other!
I tend to have views on pretty much everything, even things I know little about, yet as long as these tentertive views don't harden into a dogma impermeable to the integration of new information, that seems absolutely fine to me and even preferable to a constant state of uncertainty.
What were you doing in Poland ?
I live there!
I laughed at the Afghanistan bit. Some of us are out here doing that
You're a braver man than me Ian!