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Apologies for posting twice in a row... A nice tie? Remorse? I'm not too sure of what is accepted, to give a 'positive' definition, but I'm fairly sure that what wouldn't be accepted is the many-narratives / explanations approach that you offered up as the approach for agnosticism a few posts...

No, not at all! I think they're all in the same boat - or very similar boats, anyway (ie. ones that all fall well short of 'waterproof'). I was just saying that what goes for atheism or agnosticism also goes for religion, and vice versa, in a lot of these cases (see previous posts). And...

Perhaps what I said is better expressed by saying "it seems impossible to have any belief system that is not internally self-contradictory". That's what I was getting at by use of the term 'consistent'. And as for "easy"... I'm sure it is easy to say things like this. But logically, they don't...

I wouldn't think that this is the case. Although, of course, it depends on what definition of 'atheism' you're going with. I shall assume that the position of "having no thoughts about God whatsoever" (eg. through being non-sentient, being sentient but only thinking about how to hunt and kill...

Though aware of the fact that what I am about to say is a generalisation almost to the point of uselessness, it strikes me that it is most probably impossible to find any belief system that can be held consistently... So it's not just a problem for atheism and religious belief. For example, even...

Holbrooke Tremendous in Kosovo? I wasn't aware that anyone in the Clinton administration did anything good in Kosovo whatsoever...

Georges Bataille Georges Bataille is by no means a necessarily agreeable figure as far as his theory goes, but his book on the huge collection of prehistoric art (cave painting) found at Lascaux in France is just incredible to read. This is as much due to the subject matter as Bataille's style...

Which is not to say, of course, that all sorts of kooky and awful reinterpretations of the Bible have emerged following the 'DIY' approach of Protestantism. But this is more a testament to the ease with which interpretation quickly becomes entrenched conservatism, institutionalism once more...