RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 6, 2014 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2014 at 9:50 am by Coffee Jesus.)
(May 6, 2014 at 5:09 am)Ben Davis Wrote: Atheism is not 'the claim that religious beliefs are wrong', rather it's simply an absence of belief in god/s. Anti-theists/strong atheists/gnostic atheists may claim that religious beliefs are wrong however it's inaccurate to assume that this definition applies to all atheists. In fact, the majority of atheists (certainly, on this forum) are agnostic atheists: they make no claim to know, for sure, that there is/are no god/s but they don't believe in any.
I'm only partially agnostic. There are certain god claims that we could expect evidence for. The absence of evidence suggests that they are false. Adding further assumptions to the god claim can make it untestable, but I would apply a "guilty until proven innocent" approach to claims that ask me to assume too much. Hence I consider it false even though it's untestable.
