I am busy today and in lieu of an original post, thought that I would post an old article of mine that was published in the UK magazine New Humanist in July 2011. I moved my blog to FtB in 2012 from my earlier platform where it started in 2005, so the article appeared before many current readers would have started reading the blog and they may find it of interest.
The topic was whether being agnostic on the question of the existence of God was a viable position to take. I argue that the answer is no, hence the title of No Doubt that I gave the piece.
That magazine used to have a more playful, irreverent style that you can see just below the header. It later became more staid.
The Swedish (and possibly Scandiavian) position is “who cares?”
Religion is seen as a quite personal issue.
If you like religion, watch out for cults that want your money. Apart from that it is an issue alongside the horoscopes you find in newspapers.
If The New Humanist wants to use cellulose on the issue, I might humbly suggest more urgent issues (genocide, climate collapse), but that is all.
From the New Humanist article:
What about mathematically? There might be an infinite number of possible different deities. In that case the probabilty for the existence of each deity would be about 1/# == 0.