|
|
|
|
|
|
by woodruffw
2560 days ago
|
|
|
> Atheism is a positive belief system. It actively asserts special gnosis of God’s nonexistence which effectively makes it a particularly bare-boned form of Protestantism. Asserting the nonexistence of something is not asserting special knowledge of something's nonexistence. Atheism isn't a Platonic Beard[1]. On a more practical level: if Protestants and atheists don't find their views mutually intelligible, there probably isn't any really meaningful sense in which one is a "bare-boned form" of the other. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_beard |
|
|