RE: Atheism's Definition - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
December 3, 2011 at 1:30 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2011 at 1:31 pm by lucent.)
(December 3, 2011 at 1:10 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I'm done with you lucent, seeing that I have basicly repeated myself alot. You don't get it. It is one thing to have a decent conversation, its a complete different animal to speak with someone unwilling to listen, not deaf, because deaf people want to hear. Since you can't understand what I said, Ace and the others, and when I remember about your demons, I laughted, not about you, but about me, for foolishly trying to argue with an apologist. There is something that conforts me, that is that mabe there are people out there that have their eyes opened to what I had to say.
But since you are repeating yourself ad nauseum, nothing I say will not be a repetition, go ahead with that belief about atheists, if that makes you feel better. Or using an American expression:"Knock yourself out!".
I do get it. You want atheism to be the default position and therefore you have to redefine atheism to mean "lack of belief", and you further cement it by trying to conjoin it with agnosticism, all to escape any burden of proof. It's an intellectual dishonesty that pervades the atheist community.
What is plainly obvious is that you don't believe in God, in fact you are totally hostile to the idea, and to anyone who believes in it. So when you claim you "lack belief" it is simply a facade you throw up because you have no justification for your position.
If someone asked you the question, "do you believe in God?", are you going to answer "i lack a belief in God"? Because that isn't an answer to the question. It is an irrelevent detail about your psychology, it does not refer to whether a proposition is true or not. And if I asked you why you "lacked belief" in God, we would quickly find out that you have many beliefs about the subject indeed.