(May 2, 2014 at 12:32 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Honestly, I tend not to buy what most of my fellow atheists say about atheism in regards to this.
(May 2, 2014 at 11:42 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: All you need to do to establish atheism is a belief system is to find two beliefs all atheists agree on because they're atheists.
Well okay. All atheists agree that the following is true of themselves:
"I do not believe in the existence of gods."
Checkmate atheists?
It is more like you've defined the set of all the beliefs held in common by atheists. Does the definition of the set belong in the set? Lets say it does. Then the question becomes are there any other beliefs all atheists share in common other than the one which qualifies them as an atheist. Check.