38983RogD13 Others call themselves ‘deists’. Those


DEISTS
don’t believe in any
of these thousands of named
gods of history?!

But they dó believe
in something a little more definite
than pantheists do!?

They say they believe
in a creative intelligence who invented the laws of the universe,
sèt everything in motion at the beginning of time & space, and then sat back & did nothing more:
just lèt everything happen according to the LAWS that (s)he (it?) hàd laid down. Só several of the so-
called founding fathers of the USA, men like Thomas Jefferson & James Madison,
were deists.

My (RD /RICHARD DAWSON)
suspicion is that, ìf théy’d lived àfter Charles Darwin instead of the 18th century,
they’d have been atheists, but I (RD) can’t prove it! When people say they are atheists
they don’t mean they can prove that there
are no gods.

Strictly speaking,
it’s impossible to prove that something does
NÒT exist.

We don’t positively know
there are no gods, just as we can’t prove
there are no fairies or pixies or elves or hobgoblins, leprechauns or pink unicorns (& hobbits a.s.o.);
just as we can’t prove that Santa CLAUS or the EASTER Bunny or the Tooth Fairy
(Zwarte Piet/JanKees/Yankees etceterara)
don’t exist?!

There’s a billion things
you can or won’t imagine
& nobody can “disprove”!?

The philosopher Bertrand RUSSELL
made the point with a vivid word picture. If I were to tell you, he said,
that there is a China TeaPot In Orbit around our sun, you could not
disprove my claim.

But failure to disprove some things
is not a good enough Reason to believe IT. In some strict sense
we should all be ‘teapot agnostics’. In practice we are
a-teapotists.

You can be
an atheist in the same (technically agnostic)
way you’re an a-teapotist, an a-fairyist, an a-pixieist, an a-unicornist,
an a-anything-you-might-dream-up-ist.... An Oval Arab on Mars,
Bonobo@myDi, Chinese on the Moon
or any fucking dictator
in any Disneylandfilm.

OK!
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