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How can you be an agnostic atheist?
"Would an “all mighty’ being be able to have the power to nuke a microwave burrito so hot it couldn’t eat it?"
I see what you are saying but God doesn't need to eat.
"For instance, I can state that an omnipotent ‘god’ cannot exist in our universe simply because of the nature of what omnipotent means. "
God doesn't exist in our universe. In fact, if you asked me my honest opinion, our universe does not exist, not in the way we think anyway.
If you deny God, you deny yourself.
[["How can you be an agnostic atheist?"]]
Because agnosticism is about knowing, or something being theoretically knowable (or not) and atheism is simply the negation of the word "theism" which is a word about belief, i.e. I don't believe in any 'god' or 'gods'. Agnosticism and atheism are not degrees on the same progressive scale.
[["Would an “all mighty’ being be able to have the power to nuke a microwave burrito so hot it couldn’t eat it?"
I see what you are saying but God doesn't need to eat.]]
No, apparently you don't see what I mean. "I mean" a matter of logic, not burritos.
[["For instance, I can state that an omnipotent ‘god’ cannot exist in our universe simply because of the nature of what omnipotent means. "
God doesn't exist in our universe. In fact, if you asked me my honest opinion, our universe does not exist, not in the way we think anyway.]]
The "universe" is the universal set of all that objectively exists. If 'god' exists, then it is part of the universe. If it does not objectively, physically exist, then it is fiction at best.
[["If you deny God, you deny yourself."]]
I don't "deny" that which apparently does not exist. I'm merely waiting to ANYONE to give one iota of reason to believe in fairy goblins.
Unconscious masochistic tendencies often take on the effect of being a curse when one is magic-minded. Christianity is simply one means of turning that "cursed" self-mortifying mindset into a self-denying version of a "virtue". The only problem with this idea (other than the fact that it is some degree of self-destruction) is that love, giving and forgiving, when given freely, is not sacrifice. When it is (so called) a sacrifice, the goal is not really love, giving and forgiving, but to "measure up" in a larger authoritarian masochistic ideal...to be "worthy" of love and forgiveness yourself. The thing is, anyone who has love and forgiveness that is worth striving for will not ask you to diminish yourself in order to please it.
Self destruction and self mortification are evil, not a demand of (or from) any source of goodness. Such a "sick" impulse to please others by diminishing ourselves is born of insecurity, not from a position of self worth or self esteem.
Within the model of Pauline Christianity, it is "wrong" for me to tell you that you have worth and value beyond being chattel for 'god'.
These should be all the clues you need.
Have a nice day.
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