Just ready to take a jump of faith that I would not take.
Could be crazy, but not necessarily. Atheists are also not all rational and sane for that matter.
Agnostics, sure; they often seem the most rational and sane as a group, but positive atheism just takes the same leap of faith rt referenced; it simply leaps in the other direction. Saying you're undecided, or there's not convincing evidence or even that the balance of evidence indicates there's probably no God is rational (though I dispute the veracity of that last example, obviously). The inability to prove a negative, however, is a cornerstone of logic, so claiming to have done so is automatically irrational.
I've struggled with this myself and yes of course being agnostic is the purely rational and scientific approach. I used to always call myself an agnostic. However, no scientific experiment has ZERO error. There's always some uncertainty, abut that doesn't mean we can't make conclusions. Basically, if you're 99.9999% sure of something it's kind of ok to round up and drop that epsilon for the purposes of discussion. No, I don't 100% know that the Bible or the Koran or Joseph Smith's plates are not the word of God, but I'm preeeeetty sure and that's good enough.
Jon Huntsman, the No-Drama Conservative (he speaks like a diplomat but he is no moderate)
- 03/09/2011 05:11:12 PM
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I haven't had a chance to read the entire article yet
- 03/09/2011 09:00:22 PM
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Do we need two catholics in the race? *NM*
- 03/09/2011 11:24:19 PM
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I'd settle for one real one.
- 04/09/2011 09:44:03 PM
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Santorum is not a real catholic? Furthermore Gingrich converted to Catholicism *NM*
- 05/09/2011 12:39:38 AM
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Real Catholics, especially educated Latin-mass types should understand just-war morality *NM*
- 14/09/2011 12:47:28 AM
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Personally I think the left spends way to much time focusing on relgion
- 06/09/2011 02:04:54 AM
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Religion is an indication on whether or not a candidate is rational-minded or not.
- 06/09/2011 11:11:43 AM
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I agree the left does use religious prejudice to disqualify candidates
- 06/09/2011 02:04:02 PM
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How is it any different than Islam?
- 06/09/2011 05:00:30 PM
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Good point, they're all crazy.
- 07/09/2011 06:30:32 AM
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I am an athiest, but they are not all crazy
- 08/09/2011 02:19:38 AM
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The religions are crazy. The people believing in them are not necessarily crazy.
- 08/09/2011 06:33:46 PM
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I've yet to meet a rational sane atheist.
- 12/09/2011 10:01:59 PM
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Did you just call yourself irrational and/or insane? 
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- 12/09/2011 10:38:24 PM
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- 12/09/2011 10:38:24 PM
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It's late, so you may have to spell it out for me: Did I claim to prove a negative in there?
- 13/09/2011 12:09:09 AM
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That's a good point!
- 14/09/2011 04:34:36 PM
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At the risk of extended tangent, that's a reasonable premise, but not one that leads to atheism.
- 21/09/2011 12:55:57 AM
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To cite a pop culture figure, Ken Jennings seems pretty rational
- 06/09/2011 10:09:25 PM
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They can compartmentalize.
- 07/09/2011 06:33:42 AM
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Everyone does that
- 07/09/2011 06:59:02 AM
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So, you don't think that religiosity in american politics is increasing?
- 07/09/2011 06:56:12 PM
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No, absolutely not
- 08/09/2011 03:25:49 AM
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Why the hostility?
- 08/09/2011 03:36:37 PM
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That would be my question for you
- 08/09/2011 05:01:42 PM
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Ay.
- 08/09/2011 06:27:17 PM
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Honestly, I had the same reaction as Isaac, which is why I responded as I did.
- 12/09/2011 10:12:36 PM
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why do you think America is becoming more religious?
- 07/09/2011 03:07:58 PM
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I said religiosity is increasing in american politics, and because it is. *NM*
- 07/09/2011 06:57:35 PM
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spoken like a true believer, who needs facts when you have faith and righteousness *NM*
- 07/09/2011 09:36:45 PM
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Just based on my observations. I haven't written a report on it.
- 08/09/2011 03:38:40 PM
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Gallup has looked into it
- 08/09/2011 04:44:25 PM
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Again, that's not what I said.
- 08/09/2011 06:04:13 PM
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There's an odd line halfway the article...
- 03/09/2011 10:39:42 PM
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Which lines are you referring to? *NM*
- 04/09/2011 10:03:06 PM
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This part:
- 04/09/2011 10:25:57 PM
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really? I didn't read this as a neutral article
- 06/09/2011 02:07:22 AM
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If you read it as a positive pro-Huntsman article, that only makes the contrast weirder still. *NM*
- 07/09/2011 10:26:30 PM
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I think the problem may be your prospective
- 08/09/2011 05:09:31 AM
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Seriously? That quote parodies and mocks things that matter to conservatives.
- 08/09/2011 08:39:21 PM
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That actually sounds like a joke conservatives would say to each other where no media could hear
- 14/09/2011 12:52:18 AM
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Well, I certainly like him better than any other Republican candidate I have heard about. *NM*
- 06/09/2011 10:34:36 PM
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That actually managed to alarm me a lot more than it reassured me.
- 12/09/2011 09:52:31 PM
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