Ok, so apparently I’m an “intellectual coward”. According to Dick Dawk and his followers.
Reason: I refuse to give any real thought as to the existence/non-existence of God.
Why? Two reasons:
1) It is impossible to say with certainty either way, and even the question itself is impossible to answer at its core, since the word “God” has many different meanings to many different people. Mathematically speaking, there are BILLIONS of possible meanings for the word “God”, if you include all deities ever considered since the dawn of humanity and also all abstract concepts of a force/higher power/superior being/etc…there is NO WAY to know the answer, and I’ll find out when I die. I have enough patience to wait until then.
2) It is totally irrelevant. I live my life according to my morality: I’m not perfect, but I think I’m a decent person. If someone told me my actions would/would not get me rewarded, I would not change my behavior. If someone told me my actions would/would not get me punished for eternity, I would not change my behavior.
On a related note, to suggest that all theists only act the way they do out of desire for reward/fear of punishment is the equivalent of suggesting that all believers in the existence of laws and police to enforce them only act the way they do out of fear of punishment. That is to say, noone obeys laws because they BELIEVE in their morality, everyone just does it cuz they don’t wanna go to jail. But, deep down inside, we’re all killers/rapists/thieves/scumbags. Which is, of course, good solid empirical evidence that Dawkins is a c@nt (although there is solid empirical evidence to the contrary, see recent post).
-Puppy >.< Yip!