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An Untenable Position if Ever there Was One

Atheism, that is. At least for me. I can understand a person's rejection of a particular religion or religious text, because they may have doubts about its authenticity, or the claims made, but to truly believe that our physical realm is all there is and all there could possibly be, is just taking things too far. It's unreasonable to think that reality itself is limited to the extent of our own ability to perceive it with our (very limited and limiting) five senses. That just doesn't make any sense.
Agnosticism is a far more reasonable stance, if only because it's perfectly appropriate to believe there are some things we will simply never know. Knowledge actually does have its limits, there will never be a time when we will fully understand everything there is to understand.
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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Just because you, as a human being, can't fully perceive every aspect of the physical world around us is NO reason to believe there is any mystical/religious/magical basis to any part of existence. That's merely you being unable to accept reality without having a crutch to try and explain it to yourself.
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@ChipmunkErnie Okay then. Tell me something. Do you know about whether or not physical reality as such is either necessary or contingent? In other words, does our physical reality have the form it does because that's the way it had to be, or could it have possibly had other properties or not existed at all in the first place?
Is reality just a "brute fact"; i.e. just there, and we have to accept it, or is there an ultimate explanation even if we don't know what that explanation is?
And in using the words "mystical", "religious" and "magical", you've (deliberately, I'd bet) misrepresented my position on this.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@Bel6EQUJ5 Existence is a self-evident fact. It exists regardless of how human beings philosophize about it. As to misrepresenting your position, the original statement was confusing as to exactly what it is, so I had to guess.