Re: Objects and Relations

On Feb 18, 1:34 pm, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> >>As a devout lifelong atheist, I feel I have to step up and defend my
> >>irrationality here. Atheism is at least as irrational as any other
> >>religion or superstition. Some argue it is the least rational of
> >>religions because it doesn't offer the emotional crutch of promised
> >>salvation, ritual or social interaction.
>
> > When I walk, I do not need crutches. I do not consider my
> > walking without crutches to be the least rational way of walking. Draw
> > the obvious conclusion about god.
>
> I have no conclusions about god. I believe there is no god. I have no
> evidence to support my belief, and I don't need any. I simply take it on
> faith.

You might be an irrational atheist, but many others are not. I don't take the inexistence of any god on faith.

> I, on the other hand, would admit I do not believe in unicorns (narwhals
> excepted).

Unicorns are the distorted image of rhinoceros in Medieval Europe, and mermaids were manatees or dugongs seen on the dark by imaginative sailors.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Mon Feb 19 2007 - 13:24:33 CET