tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post3590950816163006335..comments2023-11-05T04:09:26.194-05:00Comments on e g r e g o r e s: The Religion of SocratesApuleius Platonicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-38697967670711003432009-06-17T22:23:56.589-04:002009-06-17T22:23:56.589-04:00A person cannot be both together – a rationalist a...A person cannot be both together – a rationalist and an atheist. It is impossible. Either you can be a rationalist or you can be an atheist. A rationalist cannot believe in anything. A rationalist cannot have any belief – in God or in no God. A rationalist suspends all belief. A rationalist can only be an agnostic; he can only say, ”I do not know.”<br />The moment you say ”I know,” you are no longer a rationalist. The moment you say ”I know that God does not exist,” you are as irrational as the person who says God exists. You have lost track.<br />How can you say God is not?<br />The whole existence has not yet been measured. There are depths upon depths, there is much still unknown. A little is known. Far more remains unknown and unknowable. How can you say dogmatically that God is not?<br />A rationalist will avoid all temptation of dogmatism. He will say, ”I do not know.” Socrates was a rationalist, but he was not an atheist.<br />Atheism means you are against theism; you have chosen a belief. To believe in God is a belief; to believe in no God is a belief again. You remain a believer.<br />To be a rationalist is very difficult, arduous, because man wants to cling to some belief.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com