Hey y'all, I got a question that has buggin' me for a while.
How reasonable is a theist position (any, deistic, pagan, muslim, etc.) in comparison to the atheist position?
Tell me in detail, heck, use 1-10 scales if you want just to bring the point home.
There is a lot of context for that question I want to add as well:
First, I would appreciate your own personal answer, and also another of a more objective kind; what is the academic consensus? World-wide, European, and American.
Second, as someone who is not currently enrolled in any college program, or has any relevant college background, what are the best authors, books, sources, etc that I could study for myself and learn about the issue concerning both the academic consesus, and developing my own thoughts on the matter?
Third, the reason why I brought myself here to ask, is that after so many years engaging philosophy, apologetics, history, science, you name it (I just like to read a lot of shit), I find myself noticing quite a handful of figures in the public scene taking king of the hill stances. For example theist Jay Dyer and Atheist Tom Jump. Quite frankly, such attitude is just plain repulsive, even with my biases, and it leaves me bamboozled thinking what the hell frick of a book or thing did I miss that made these people so confident in their positions. Am I plain retarded? Or are such people enduring severe psychological issues?
Give me hope, Reddit.
(The term agnostic is acknowledged and put away for the sake of the question, so theist should be defined as belief in an immaterial realm, and/or transcendent being(s), while atheist defined as a position which stands in DENIAL to that. The definitons are as such whether the evidence that prompted both positions be either sufficient, or beyond doubt.
I'll not take an atheist position which defines itself fundamentally skeptical as atheist, because that's just plain agnosticism.)
-Sanguinarius- t1_iry1p35 wrote
Reply to /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | October 10, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
Hey y'all, I got a question that has buggin' me for a while.
How reasonable is a theist position (any, deistic, pagan, muslim, etc.) in comparison to the atheist position?
Tell me in detail, heck, use 1-10 scales if you want just to bring the point home.
There is a lot of context for that question I want to add as well:
First, I would appreciate your own personal answer, and also another of a more objective kind; what is the academic consensus? World-wide, European, and American.
Second, as someone who is not currently enrolled in any college program, or has any relevant college background, what are the best authors, books, sources, etc that I could study for myself and learn about the issue concerning both the academic consesus, and developing my own thoughts on the matter?
Third, the reason why I brought myself here to ask, is that after so many years engaging philosophy, apologetics, history, science, you name it (I just like to read a lot of shit), I find myself noticing quite a handful of figures in the public scene taking king of the hill stances. For example theist Jay Dyer and Atheist Tom Jump. Quite frankly, such attitude is just plain repulsive, even with my biases, and it leaves me bamboozled thinking what the hell frick of a book or thing did I miss that made these people so confident in their positions. Am I plain retarded? Or are such people enduring severe psychological issues?
Give me hope, Reddit.
(The term agnostic is acknowledged and put away for the sake of the question, so theist should be defined as belief in an immaterial realm, and/or transcendent being(s), while atheist defined as a position which stands in DENIAL to that. The definitons are as such whether the evidence that prompted both positions be either sufficient, or beyond doubt.
I'll not take an atheist position which defines itself fundamentally skeptical as atheist, because that's just plain agnosticism.)