Here's a question. I'm a full-blown atheist, yet I believe in ghosts, ufos, bigfoot, etc. People tell me this is contradictory, but I've actually seen what I believe to be those things. I've yet to see Jesus strolling around. Is this a contradictory way of thinking?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I don't think it's contradictory at all. A belief that ghosts may exist does not necessarily mean the believer also believes in god and/or an afterlife; there are various theories about ghosts, for example the "stone tape hypothesis" (in my opinion, total woo), which attempt to explain them in non-supernatural terms. UFOs and Bigfoot, meanwhile, have nothing to do with god or religion: it's entirely possible to believe in UFOs as unexplained earthly or natural phenomena or as alien spacecraft without believing in the supernatural, while it could be argued that Bigfoot may be an undiscovered species.
Jnei
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That's kind of how I approach the subjects Jnei. What amuses me is when religious folks ask how I can believe in all of those things, but not in God. Well, I have never had a God sighting for starters. That and ... you know ... science.
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@ArthurPhillips The way I look at it, sea monsters/yetis/the Mongolian Death Worm/mokole-mbembe/the Beast of Bodmin/etc., etc., are all of a similar level of weirdness to stuff we know for an absolute fact does exist. God, meanwhile, is so much less weird than what we know is true about the workings of the Universe that the very concept of her/his existence seems highly unlikely to me.
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