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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Yes, but we are now getting into a debate surrounding faith. And that takes us down the same path as every other thread CP has had that involves religion and would crush the debate over the evolution of symbols.
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Well, let's look at it from the original subject's position. We have instituted new symbols, mainly technocratic and ideological ones, in the place of religious symbols. Things like Progress, Human Rights, Universal Knowledge, and Rationality.
My problem with almost every atheist that I have ever met is that they are completely unaware of this; opting for photon and other's basic position that they arrived at atheism or agnosticism because they just "examined the evidence."
Heck, I have yet to hear one of them repeat Nietzsche's maxim regarding religion which is that substituting an omnipotent humanity for an omnipotent God really doesn't change things that much.