"At this season of the winter solstice, may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."The atheists long that "reason may prevail". They then make the claim that "there are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only the natural world."
Question. How do they know that "there are no gods"? Have they looked in every corner of the universe?
This is what strikes me as odd about the claim of atheism: it is a claim that a universal negative is true. But universal negatives cannot be proven. The claim is unreasonable. Thus, the atheist, by definition is rejecting the very reason he claims must prevail.
The intellectually honest position would be agnostism; that gods (or the supernatural) may exist but that we cannot know for sure.
Therein lies the rub. These individuals aren't really interested in reason or intellectual honesty. They have a hatred for anything religious and they willingly offend those who hold differing views.
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