RE: Is atheism ever a faith?
October 9, 2008 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2008 at 10:58 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 8, 2008 at 10:30 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: If however your disbelief in God IS only based on improbability ...That's proper De-facto atheism I'd say.
Quote:Sounds like my rational atheism.
I'd suggest we have a definitions thread except that no one ever seems to be able to agree on such things
Kyu
Yeah I guess what I mean is....what you call irrational atheism is basically faith in atheism because it's not based on evidence just like faith in religion isn't....we just don't call it faith in atheism.
I'd be in favour of a definition thread...who cares if we never agree, (which we almost certainly won't) it could potenital for a great learning expeirence. And it's interesting too.
Besides I think that irrational atheism and faith in atheism are basically the same thing....
Basically what I mean is what you call 'irrational atheism' is basically a faith because it's not based on evidence...so it can result in a mindset-flip (like it did to me) or something similar that results in delusion just like religion is a delusion...so irrational atheism can be dangerous, because, like faith in religion...it's not a delusion; because despite believing (or disbelieving) the right things, it's for the wrong reasons: Intuition and preference rather than evidence and probability.
