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Poll: Can atheism ever be based on faith?
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Possibly because atheism could be based not only on evidence but also on preference or intuition, this would be faith in atheism.
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Never, atheism always contradicts faith. There is no faith without belief in the supernatural.
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8 57.14%
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Is atheism ever a faith?
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RE: Is atheism ever a faith?
(September 23, 2008 at 8:35 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: you don't need faith to dis-believe something but you must need SOME faith to dis-believe it 100% because theres still a possibility (an incredibly incredibly incredibly recurring tiny possibility) that something supernatural, or a God of any sort exists.
I disagree. Disbelief is either rejecting or not believing a claim. The claim that God exists is the one put forward, and it has absolutely 0% evidence behind it that can be verified. Thus it takes 0% faith to disbelieve it, seeing as there is nothing we are ignoring or simply discarding.

If there was evidence, the disbelief would be based on some form of faith. For example, the vast majority of the scientific community claim Evolution explains how we got here. The evidence for this is absolutely massive. Do deny / disbelieve Evolution requires a giant leap of faith, because you have to ignore all the scientific evidence.
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Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - September 22, 2008 at 8:02 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Meatball - September 22, 2008 at 11:42 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - September 22, 2008 at 11:56 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Ace Otana - September 23, 2008 at 7:18 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - September 23, 2008 at 8:35 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Tiberius - September 23, 2008 at 8:30 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - September 23, 2008 at 10:17 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - September 23, 2008 at 10:38 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - September 23, 2008 at 9:11 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by starbucks - September 23, 2008 at 11:58 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - September 24, 2008 at 12:13 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - September 24, 2008 at 10:36 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - September 24, 2008 at 12:13 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Abaddon - October 2, 2008 at 4:06 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 3, 2008 at 11:53 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by imans - October 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 5, 2008 at 10:02 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 8, 2008 at 1:27 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Kyuuketsuki - October 8, 2008 at 5:10 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 8, 2008 at 10:30 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Kyuuketsuki - October 9, 2008 at 4:31 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2008 at 10:51 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 9, 2008 at 3:16 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Bungy - October 19, 2008 at 12:19 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 19, 2008 at 12:27 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Bungy - October 19, 2008 at 12:40 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 19, 2008 at 12:58 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Bungy - October 19, 2008 at 6:03 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 20, 2008 at 6:52 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 20, 2008 at 8:11 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 21, 2008 at 4:18 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 21, 2008 at 6:43 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 22, 2008 at 12:48 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 22, 2008 at 7:41 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Bungy - October 23, 2008 at 9:48 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 24, 2008 at 8:52 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 23, 2008 at 12:57 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 23, 2008 at 5:56 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 24, 2008 at 12:47 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 24, 2008 at 4:39 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Bungy - October 24, 2008 at 7:01 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 24, 2008 at 9:27 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 29, 2008 at 12:28 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 29, 2008 at 12:54 pm
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 31, 2008 at 10:41 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2008 at 10:50 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 31, 2008 at 11:04 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by leo-rcc - October 31, 2008 at 11:08 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2008 at 11:10 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by chatpilot - October 31, 2008 at 11:10 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2008 at 11:13 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by leo-rcc - October 31, 2008 at 11:15 am
RE: Is atheism ever a faith? - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2008 at 11:18 am

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