Rational Thought

3 responses to “Rational Thought”

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   Gelert

   November 15, 2007

   Well, I think you should be. Only one thing though – how come so many of them have athiest in the title? We have this ongoing dialogue about why some people seem to think you must be an atheist to be thinking or worth listening to. I of course, don’t agree, but maybe I’m just lucky in the people I know. I’ve met as many closed minded athiests as believers, and have not found intellectual worth packaged in only one or the other.

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   Geoff

   November 16, 2007

   It’s nothing to do with being "worth listening to" in the sense that I think you mean it. It’s to do with being rational. If "faith" means accepting something without evidence, then I’m sorry, but I think it’s a poor alternative. "Closed minded" is orthogonal to "Atheism", the two have nothing to do with each other as far as I’m concerned.

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   Gelert

   November 17, 2007

   Hmmm. Yes, I see what you are saying, but of course, disagree on the ‘no evidence’. I consider myself very rational, have approached the many ‘strange’ things that have happened to me in my life with cold rationalism, and remain open minded about some,if not all. I think the ‘evidence of faith’ and even the word ‘faith’ is greatly misunderstood. What I mean by ‘closed minded’ about many atheists I’ve spoken with, is their lack of willingness of even approach the possibility that because they cannot put it on a plate, it is by definition, void.

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