Discussion about religion

[Froge]

Atheist here as well, but Dan's OP post is not a very good argument.

Firstly, even though I am atheist, I do believe that it is a faith as well - atheism isn't any more "logical" than religion. There is no concrete proof that anything we perceive with our senses, and therefore the knowledge that we gather of the physical world, is real. I'm an atheist because I put faith in sensory perception and I believe that all the evidence we have acquired from observing the world is real.

Secondly, from all I've observed "logic" and "reason" are very malleable concepts that vary from society to society. The Elizabethans believed in the great chain of being and that everything in nature was interconnected to a universal hierarchy, and that was their mode of "reason." Obviously, with the scientific knowledge that we gathered today, any of us could argue that this is false. This is then a change in the societal concept of "logic." Believing that everything in nature is interconnected was the Elizabethan's mode of reasoning because it helped them make sense of the world around them. We do the same with science in the modern age. But realistically no one can argue that any one form of logic is better than another.

I don't like what I've just said above. I would like to believe, very strongly, that we hold the "true" form of human logic in our current era of scientific progress, but that is, again, only a faith.