Comments on: Adam Carolla on Religion http://www.irreligion.org/2009/02/20/adam-carolla-on-religion/ Your last stop before eternal enlightenment Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: nekouken http://www.irreligion.org/2009/02/20/adam-carolla-on-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-23847 nekouken Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:44:13 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/?p=546#comment-23847 I got one minute in and couldn't listen anymore. Mega Comrade's criticism was exactly the first thing to pop into my mind as well -- with the addendum that the laws of the universe are not 100% certain even in the minds of those scientists who study and apply them routinely; there is always some margin for error -- if for no other reason that saying you know there's no god means that you'll deny it even if you're faced with falsifiable evidence of one's existence. The next thing he goes to pisses me off, too; the implication that everybody knows there's no god and insist there is only out of fear of death. I'm an atheist, but I've encountered hundreds of valid reasons for any one person to believe in a god of some sort beyond the fear of death. That insistence that everybody knows something you <i>think</i> is true is just as bad as the theists one encounters who insist that atheists know there <i>is</i> a god, and reject this knowledge because we want license to be immoral or something equally stupid. Then again, I've never really been all that impressed with Adam Corolla, so I suppose I didn't expect much when I hit "play." I got one minute in and couldn’t listen anymore. Mega Comrade’s criticism was exactly the first thing to pop into my mind as well — with the addendum that the laws of the universe are not 100% certain even in the minds of those scientists who study and apply them routinely; there is always some margin for error — if for no other reason that saying you know there’s no god means that you’ll deny it even if you’re faced with falsifiable evidence of one’s existence.

The next thing he goes to pisses me off, too; the implication that everybody knows there’s no god and insist there is only out of fear of death. I’m an atheist, but I’ve encountered hundreds of valid reasons for any one person to believe in a god of some sort beyond the fear of death. That insistence that everybody knows something you think is true is just as bad as the theists one encounters who insist that atheists know there is a god, and reject this knowledge because we want license to be immoral or something equally stupid.

Then again, I’ve never really been all that impressed with Adam Corolla, so I suppose I didn’t expect much when I hit “play.”

]]> By: Mega Comrade http://www.irreligion.org/2009/02/20/adam-carolla-on-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-23818 Mega Comrade Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:23:15 +0000 http://www.irreligion.org/?p=546#comment-23818 I find it annoying that he implies you have to 'know' god doesn't exist to be an atheist. Agnotic is NOT a the middle ground, it is a statement on knowledge. Most people are Agnostic Atheist rather than simply Atheist. This misconception really annoys me. I find it annoying that he implies you have to ‘know’ god doesn’t exist to be an atheist. Agnotic is NOT a the middle ground, it is a statement on knowledge. Most people are Agnostic Atheist rather than simply Atheist.

This misconception really annoys me.

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