(June 5, 2014 at 9:14 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: Stay on your Meds!!

Gee, you certainly do find yourself witty. Now you make we wonder what an enlightening opportunity I may have missed out on by not debating you. You are obviously such a serious scholar, no telling what I might have learned. Right.

let's make a list

faith statement of absolute certainty
pastor that runs around preaching that certainty
meeting places to gather and discuss the clarity logic and reason
symbol, or flag, to gather around
persecuted in the name of it
people kill others that don't think like them or follow it

hmm, no we don't fit.

(May 28, 2014 at 5:52 pm)Sejanus Wrote: Theism=believes in at least one God or god.

Doesn't that definition apply more to deists? I took theism to mean belief in and worship of a personal god, (which is religion), and atheism do be the negation of theism.

It doesn't exclude deists. There's no requirement in the definition of theism that one worship a god one believes exists. A person can be a 'mere theist' who believes some sort of God exists (not necessarily a non-interfering deistic one) without being too worried about the nature of that God. I'd say a lot of agnostic theists fall under that category.

(June 6, 2014 at 12:32 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(May 28, 2014 at 5:52 pm)Sejanus Wrote: Theism=believes in at least one God or god.

Doesn't that definition apply more to deists? I took theism to mean belief in and worship of a personal god, (which is religion), and atheism do be the negation of theism.

It doesn't exclude deists. There's no requirement in the definition of theism that one worship a god one believes exists. A person can be a 'mere theist' who believes some sort of God exists (not necessarily a non-interfering deistic one) without being too worried about the nature of that God. I'd say a lot of agnostic theists fall under that category.
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TRUE

"theist" has a definition.


now can you define any rational reason, lets say using physics, that could lead someone down the path to "believing in something". Having no idea other than 'nothing' has no observational evidence. And "something" does.

(June 6, 2014 at 12:38 pm)archangle Wrote:

(June 6, 2014 at 12:32 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: It doesn't exclude deists. There's no requirement in the definition of theism that one worship a god one believes exists. A person can be a 'mere theist' who believes some sort of God exists (not necessarily a non-interfering deistic one) without being too worried about the nature of that God. I'd say a lot of agnostic theists fall under that category.

TRUE

"theist" has a definition.


now can you define any rational reason, lets say using physics, that could lead someone down the path to "believing in something". Having no idea other than 'nothing' has no observational evidence. And "something" does.

Could you put that question a little more vaguely, please? As is, I almost feel like I understand what you're asking.

sectarianism is a religion