RE: the atheism debate that evolved in another person's pleasant Christmas post.

No reason to keep reblogging it.

I guess I'm coming at it from a nihilist angle, from a truly skeptical one. True skepticism can only lead to nihilism. Keep in mind I don't have a negative view of nihilism, unlike, say, Wikipedia, which defines it clunkily and simplistically.

Certainty is not an external thing, but an internal one, and it is constructed entirely out of faith.

Basically what I'm saying is that all knowledge is opinion and the hanging on to it, faith. Believing that there is no god is an act of faith. Coming down on one side of anything is faith. The human machine operates on faith, just like on air and food.

Facts and truth are those concepts and ideas that have the most subscribers. The minority is simply "wrong", but it takes an act of faith to call it that.

I am no different. I say all this out of faith. I say everything out of faith. So do you.