> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:47 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: This is comforting to me. > > > Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > My wife and I took the "Belief Quiz" on beliefnet. Amaziningly > > enough, I scored 100% match with non-theists, but surprisingly 70% > > match with Liberal Quakers. Who knew I was a closet quaker. My wife > > matched Liberal Christian Progressive....or something like that. > > According to the Belief-O-Matic my top affiliation is with "Secular > Huminists", which seems decent according to the very simple description > they provided. > > I would have liked more separation between 'belief that there is > nothing' and 'can't know if there is something or not'. I've long > known > I am a pretty died in the wool agnostic. Just not sure what I am > supposed to do with this knowledge.
Remember tho' that Atheism isn't "belief in nothing" (that's still a faith-based statements). Atheism is a recognition of the lack of evidence for "something". It's a rejection of faith as an explanatory feature of the universe (but NOT a rejection of faith in general: faith in self, faith in human nature, faith in others, faith in country, etc - these are all outside the scope of atheism). It's subtle, but it's a very important difference. Any atheist that says "there is no God" is (if they're not just using lazy language) not a very good atheist. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291215 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
