# Poll: Is Atheism Logical? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504 "2004-10-16T01:52:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/41 "2004-10-16T05:54:51Z")
[Fish!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism) ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/42 "2004-10-16T05:59:21Z")
It works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/43 "2004-10-16T06:06:14Z")
Yes, because God told me to be an atheist. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/44 "2004-10-16T06:07:26Z")
> [@1010011010](#): > > [Fish!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism) Interesting. I read the quote from Principia Discordia and it seems that they must be relying on people’s inability to swallow their explanation 🙂 Regardless, I swallowed it and my conclusion is that it is lacking in practicality. It makes a single logical statement yet has only chaotic imiplications about how we, as men, should act. It is yet just another superimposed layer of the very stained glass grids it discusses. Although it purports that they are all equal, perhaps it itself is just a bit thicker. Oh and I forgot. It goes by another name. [Subjectivism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/subjectivism). Purporting that each way of looking at the unchangeable and unknowable unknown is an equally valuable way has been around for a long, long time. I give them credit in that only a few can speak of knowns and unknowns as gracefully as Donald Rumsfeld ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/45 "2004-10-16T06:19:44Z")
> [@alterego](#): > > Interesting. I read the quote from Principia Discordia and it seems that they must be relying on people’s inability to swallow their explanation 🙂 Regardless, I swallowed it and my conclusion is that it is lacking in practicality. It makes a single logical statement yet has only chaotic imiplications about how we, as men, should act. It is yet just another superimposed layer of the very stained glass grids it discusses. Although it purports that they are all equal, perhaps it itself is just a bit thicker. Oh and I forgot. It goes by another name. [Subjectivism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/subjectivism). Purporting that each way of looking at the unchangeable and unknowable unknown is an equally valuable way has been around for a long, long time. I give them credit in that only a few can speak of knowns and unknowns as gracefully as Donald Rumsfeld You’ve already posted in this poll-I suggest _strongly_ that you move on. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/46 "2004-10-16T06:40:49Z")
Yes. (Then again, they found 2 construction beams in the shape of a cross in the wreckage of the World Trade Center so that “proves” there must be a God. :rolleyes: ) ---
**Author:** ![Coin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Coin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/47 "2004-10-16T08:00:56Z")
Ayup. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/48 "2004-10-16T08:21:47Z")
Who says logic is logical? ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/49 "2004-10-16T08:44:48Z")
Atheism is not logical. Neither is theism. The only truly logical stand is agnosticism, which says, “I don’t know.” ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/50 "2004-10-16T09:12:57Z")
Yes. Extreamly logical. ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/51 "2004-10-16T11:06:12Z")
yes ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/52 "2004-10-16T12:07:59Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > and yes I said yes I will Yes. Indubitably And \*\*lisa\_lund,\*\*will you tell me where that line came from,and who said it? It’s right on the tip of my brain,but it"s securely anchored there, and it’s driving me mental.My addy’s in my profile. (Mods:lisa’s addy isn’t listed,or I would have contacted him off-thread.Hope you’ll forgive me.) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/53 "2004-10-16T12:08:51Z")
Yuperooni. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/54 "2004-10-16T12:46:21Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/55 "2004-10-16T13:17:18Z")
Impossible to answer with a simple yes or no. It would depend entirely upon what an individual believes and what they want or need to believe. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/56 "2004-10-16T13:17:31Z")
Yes. Considerably more logical than inventing a mythical supernatural force from wishful thinking or ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/57 "2004-10-16T13:24:47Z")
> [@ageless6](#): > > And \*\*lisa\_lund,\*\*will you tell me where that line came from,and who said it? It’s right on the tip of my brain,but it"s securely anchored there, and it’s driving me mental. I’ll step in for **Ilsa\_Lund** , here. I gave a hint in my post, above. It’s from Molly’s soliloquy, at the end of James Joyce’s _Ulysses_. ---
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/58 "2004-10-16T14:00:31Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/59 "2004-10-16T14:08:30Z")
Yeppers. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504/60 "2004-10-16T14:56:26Z")
> [@ageless6](#): > > Indubitably > And \*\*lisa\_lund,\*\*will you tell me where that line came from,and who said it? It’s right on the tip of my brain,but it"s securely anchored there, and it’s driving me mental.My addy’s in my profile. > > (Mods:lisa’s addy isn’t listed,or I would have contacted him off-thread.Hope you’ll forgive me.) Thou are forgiven. Now go forth and sin no more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-atheism-logical/269504.md?page=4)