RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 1, 2019 at 8:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2019 at 8:36 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 1, 2019 at 10:41 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I don't believe you have a hundred dollar bill in your left front pants pocket. It does not follow from that, that I believe you don't have a $100 in that pocket. You could, but absent more information, the smart bet would be against it. You could fairly say that I have a belief that you having a $100 bill in that particular pocket is improbable.
I consider the odds of some God or god existing to be very low; but not zero. You could fairly say that I have a belief that divine beings are improbable.
You wouldn't identify by that belief for no reason. You'd wait until I claimed I had $100 in my pocket. Then you'd take a position-- you believe it, you don't believe it, or you would need more information in order to form a coherent belief. It would strike me as very strange if at that point you claimed to "lack that belief."