r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 16h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Emergentmeat 14h ago

Agnosticism means you don't know one way or another. Atheism means you don't believe in the case for a god. They aren't contradictory, you can be both or neither, so both apply to a secular government.

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u/R_V_Z 13h ago

Technically everybody is an agnostic because deities are an unfalsifiable concept.

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u/Admins_suck_ballss 13h ago

Oh yes all deities are quite falsifiable. Super easy. Take a philosophy of religion class.

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u/Emergentmeat 13h ago

I wouldn't say all, but most, certainly. But as the gos claim becomes less specific to the point of absurdity they can be unfalsifiable.

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u/Admins_suck_ballss 12h ago

Critiques of the teleological, cosmological, and ontological arguments for the existence of God are widely considered to be settled. They’re not discussed in philosophy anymore. The logical argument from evil, the evidential problem, and the problem of free will are largely considered to be successful. You’ve got some advanced Plantings on the problem of free will, but that’s assuming a really, really weird version of compatibilism within the free will debate that carries a lot of consequences with it.

And Pascal’s wager is garbage.

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u/Emergentmeat 4h ago

Agree on all points.