08-29-2006, 07:37 PM
Quote:OTOH, I've found atheists to be generally arrogant as hell when it comes to their "enlightened" belief that they are smarter than religious people solely on the basis that they are not believing in something that can't be proven and requires an act of faith. As far as "closemindedness", do atheists believe that there is at least a small possibility that there is a god? They do NOT. That is also closemindedness. Those who do think that it is at least a remote possibility are not true atheists.
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I wasn't aware of these strict defenitions.
Anyway, if somebody gives me the scientific prove that God exists I will believe that. Maybe I am not a true atheist than.
A prove that God does not exist (not possible because of the fuzzy defenition of God) would not convince religious people, because they are much less sensitive for scientific evidence,...it isn't called faith for nothing.
By the way, I think that your finding of atheists being 'arrogant as hell' points more at non-believers (people that can't be bothered to think about the subject) than at atheists.