Atheists think INQUIRY is a vice.
When you hold ignorance to be a virtue, you naturally hold inquiry to be a vicious activity.
When you hold ignorance to be a virtue, you naturally hold inquiry to be a vicious activity.
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For a philosopher, “I don’t know,” is a spur to INQUIRE.
For the atheist … it’s arrogance: "Why would I go any further if I don't know? That's arrogance."
For the atheist … it’s arrogance: "Why would I go any further if I don't know? That's arrogance."
The projection is large, since the SCIENTIFIC TRADITION grew out of Christian Europe.
The pre-Christian pagans tended to punish those who sought knowledge, as with Socrates, for the “arrogance” of inquiring into “things man was not meant to know.”
The pre-Christian pagans tended to punish those who sought knowledge, as with Socrates, for the “arrogance” of inquiring into “things man was not meant to know.”
I wish I was surprised to see an atheist in 2021 saying “It is bad to inquire when you do not know. It is arrogance” but I’m really not, sadly.
Atheists have been forced to make ignorance a virtue since they abandoned the reality of atheism (but not the name) for agnosticism.
Atheists have been forced to make ignorance a virtue since they abandoned the reality of atheism (but not the name) for agnosticism.
Once you abandon the atheist position “There is no God,” because it isn’t a rationally defensible position, you are left with the merely psychological state of “I’m not convinced.” To maintain this state requires not arguments, but ignorance. So ignorance becomes virtue.
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