Besides your belief that there is no higher power, what are your thoughts on supernatural phenomena? - eviltoast

Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.

Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.

Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.

  • cowboydiplomat@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    26 days ago

    I’m saying your initial question is problematic and a bit silly if we’re having such a hard time categorizing things between natural and supernatural. It isn’t that weird a place to start a discussion. I’m in the camp of people who thinks 1) the burden of proof is on the person making the claim, I.e. you, and 2) it’s difficult to discuss whether a thing exists if you cannot first define the thing.

    • aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      26 days ago

      When I say supernatural, I mean ghosts, spirits, deities, magic, aliens… etc. That kind of stuff. They all fall under the word supernatural.