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Originally Posted by Royal Tenenbaum
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Originally Posted by Kulturkampf
If religion is a tool of ignorance, then wouldn't it mean that those who did not have religion were thus in some way liberated of at least one major form of ignorance?
Religion isn't a minor thing, and if you regard religion as an ignorant superstition, wouldn't it mean that those without religion would suddenly be less ignorant and better for it?
What do you mean, or haven't you thought it all out yet?
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Obviously you know little to nothing about critical thinking. An absence of one thing does not entail a presence of another. Just because religion is ignorance does not make aetheism the lack of ignorance. Aetheist can be ignorant without religion, but religion in itself insists upon blind faith. Blind faith in something without evidence, or in the face of contrary evidence, is ignorant. Someone who is aetheist has an advantage because hopefully they will question the world and look for deeper answers beyond the stock bullshit that religions feed people. Without the thrist for knowledge, these people will be no better off. |
I disagree.
An atheist can be ignorant in other things, but if he rejects the existence of the supernatural he is no longer ignorant about religion.
There are carptements that exist within thought.