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Old 06-19-2005, 02:13 PM
drudman drudman is offline
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Default Re: Atheism is retarded...

It has nothing to do with who is better than others, or whose views are better than others.

Theists argue that a transcendant God whose existence cannot even by experience be proven probable does in fact exist. Atheists argue that a transcendant God whose non-existence cannot even by experience be proven probable does in fact, not exist. Neither of them are actually expressing actual statements or propositions - any supposed propositions regarding the existence or non-existence of a transcendant God are senseless, i.e. they contain no content. Simply put, they are not propositions, rather they are nonsensical utterances.

Agnostics do not escape either, because their statements of doubt, or whatever you classify their statements as, are propositions regarding the non-propositions of the theists and atheists. They too are speaking nonsense.

Read A.J. Ayer's "Language, Truth, and Logic".
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