I Dunno

[poliphilo]

I'm not a believer. Not any more. But I'm not an atheist. Atheism is also a belief.

I suppose the word has to be agnostic. A know-nothing. I will sniff at any nebulous theory you choose to float under my nose- I love that sort of thing- but I'm afraid I won't be buying it- thanks all the same.

Is there a God? Any God worth its Name has to be utterly unknowable- and unknowable is practically the same as non-existent.

Are there gods? Of course- hundreds, nay thousands. They are the faces we see in clouds, in patterns of vegetation, in rock formations, in wallpaper. Most of my favourite gods are goddesses.

Is there Life after Death? I've had too many "intimations of immortality" to deny it. But I'm not going to affirm it either. Why don't we all just wait and see?

Comments

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

Have you been watching the Atheism tapes and the History Of Disbelief on BBC4 recently? They're good, I think. They'll probably turn up on BBC2 sooner or later.

The guy on the AT last night was talking about the difference between atheists and anti-theists, and how most people who say they're atheists are actually anti-theists because they still have to fight relatively hard in this "Christian society".

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've been watching Miller, but the Atheism Tapes are on past my bedtime.

That's an interesting distinction between atheists and antitheists. I certainly went through a phase of antitheism, but it was mainly
myself I was fighting. It's very difficult to free oneself of a lifetime of religious conditioning and sometimes only extreme and aggressive tactics will do.