Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Gutfeld: Wokeism relies on this" video.
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@MAGA4EVA1986 I think a rational and intellectually rigorous atheist would immediately recognize that mere rationality doesn't explain everything. You can reason your way to most of the 10 commandments from a "Life Is Good" axiom, but that right there is something you must accept as true without proof before applying it. It's a grand act of faith of which most atheists seem supremely oblivious.
I'm not saying that every or even any religion gets it right. But most admit and are COGNIZANT of what they're taking on faith. Most atheists, I would maintain, are NOT.
I think someone who is truly rigorous in their thinking and reasoning should probably be agnostic. Atheists like, say, Sam Harris, think that destroying specific dogmas and doctrines with facts and science utterly destroys the IDEA of anything greater being out there or being responsible for all of Creation. The simple fact is that science and reason are utterly SILENT on the subject of the existence of higher-order intelligence arranging things, let alone running things or watching over us.
Personally, I'm kind of a superstitious agnostic. I come at it from sort of an evolutionary psychology point of view, thanks to Jordan Peterson. There's SO much buried in our subconscious, primitive parts of our brain that drive us without our very thin layer of rational thought even being aware of. And the ideation of the IDEAL is necessary to self and societal improvement. You can't make progress towards a better world if you never conceive of something better that is not already manifest in the world around you. This ideation lies at the core of human progress, and atheists don't seem to recognize that, or even give credence to the POSSIBILITY that our reaching for God in our clumsy, imperfect, beings-with-mass-and-subject-to-time is in any way legitimate.
1,000 years ago, God was OK with slavery, if you believe what people believed 1000 or 2000 years ago. Then, the act of reaching for God taught us that slavery was wrong and we sort of got things wrong. Does that mean God was wrong, or does it mean that our ideas are evolving to something closer to God, or - as the atheists would have us think - that there is no God? I think the recognition that humans must've gotten this or that wrong doesn't disprove the existence of God. But if I may paraphrase, "absence of evidence is not proof of absence." It just means that we don't know and for now, we CAN'T know.
Not knowing or "can't know" is very different from proof something doesn't exist. That denial requires a leap of faith all its own, and that most atheists are too closed-minded and, frankly, arrogant to admit.
I prefer to remain a superstitious agnostic. I was raised a Christian and have all those archetypes pounded into my head. Whether Jesus is savior or not, he represents an ideal human, a perfect human, that I carry in me and judge my and others' actions by. Live in love. Use reason to test whether what you're doing is coming from or of love. Also, be thankful that there's air to breathe, a roof over your head, food in your belly, and clothes on your back. Did you work for most of that? Sure. But being ABLE to work for that, even to be able to breathe, is a gift that I receive just by being born on this planet.
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