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Quote by: HelioPrime  A number of people (example Rez) always mention God as in the (very low probability) So does that mean you are not an atheist?
Even Dawkins wrote he's a 6 out of 7 atheist on his scale of levels of belief (1 Being absolute fundamentalist religious, 7 being 100% certain gods don't exist). Does that mean he considers the very unlikely remote chance he could be wrong? Or do you all have to be 100% certain your correct in your mind. |
In my mind, the existence of god(s) is
possible but not
probable. I make the active decision not to believe in god(s), so that makes me an atheist.
100% is an extreme. It leaves absolutely no margin of error. Lots of people avoid such extremes, even on concepts as ludicrous as pink unicorns, the flying spaghetti monster, etc.
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Basically even if you admit the possibility of the existence of God, you want to apart from that God because he doesn't appear perfect in your eyes. If God was real you'd want to go to hell in your mind because hell would be separation from an unjust God.
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Very few people
want to go to hell.
I can't speak for all atheists, but if the Christian God was shown to exist just as he is portrayed in the Bible, then I very well may consider worshipping him. But since I feel that scenario is about as likely as pink unicorns and the flying spaghetti monster, I don't worry much about it.
What are your feelings on other deities? What if Allah was proven to be the true God? Would
you want to go to Islamic Hell? (As Aussie noted)