[lbo-talk] You do realize, I hope, that religous expression isn't going anywhere...don't you?

[ravi]

On 05/12/05 14:05, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> Actually, they are me.  I wouldn't claim to be an atheist -- which
> strikes me as just another absurd attempt to claim certain knowledge of
> unknowable things.
>

if there are things that are "unknowable", how can we even say they are
there? atheism is not (at least to me) a claim to knowledge of the
non-existence of a thing, but a parsimonious dismissal of an
irresponsible question ("how many green mermaids lived in the year
1930?", "have you stopped beating your wife?", etc). i.e., it is
agnosticism without stating the obvious.

	--ravi