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I'm going to blatently steal this from Lady Sage's current sig: "If only closed minds came with closed mouths."
That said, he is right. The buden of proof is on the believer. And until that proof is given, belief in a supreme being is not a justified belief. It might be true, as might many other things. As he said, we can't prove that "the Flying Spaghetti Monster, unicorns, Thor, Wotan, Jupiter, or fairies at the bottom of the garden" don't exist, but belief in those would also be unjustified.
And to state that is not to force your beliefs on others, any more than telling a person that believes in fairies, that they don't exist. The way forward for civilisation is to confront ignorance, respectfully, but not to let it lie.
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"Oh, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83 when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."
Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
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