RE: Is atheism ever a faith?
September 23, 2008 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2008 at 10:42 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 23, 2008 at 10:17 am)chatpilot Wrote: I would never consider atheism either a faith or a religion for the following reasons.I personally do not have faith in any way shape or form that god does not exist.I am thoroughly convinced that he or she or it does not exist.I don't go to meetings or prostests or join atheists groups.But I do love the occasional debate.What I mean is since God can't be disproved just like Russels teapot can't.... you can be 99% recurring sure that God doesn't exist because of evidence...but to fill up the gap and say his existence is impossible must take atleast some form of faith however small because there isn't enough evidence to disprove god or to be 100% "thoroughly convinced" as you put it that he doesn't exist. So however small the amount of faith my point is I think Atheism can be based on faith....
I am pretty certain that my Atheism used to be based on faith because I didn't really know any of the evidence (as I explained on my first post of this topic). And if Atheism based not on evidence but on intution and faith is not Atheism then what was my label if it wasn't Atheism? I was 100% against God and the supernatural yet I didn't know of any of the evidence, I only had my intuitive observations and predictions. I think this is an example of an Atheistic faith. Of course now my Atheism is based on evidence, not faith.
