Atheism is a religion

[KichigaiNeko]

Oh dear...sounds like the theists like to dish it out but object most volubly when it is sent back to them??

[kılıç_mehmet]

Oh dear...sounds like the theists like to dish it out but object most volubly when it is sent back to them??

What is that?
Ah, insults yeah.

[KichigaiNeko]

Oh dear...sounds like the theists like to dish it out but object most volubly when it is sent back to them??

What is that?
Ah, insults yeah.

Why so defensive mehmet?? My oh my you ARE delicate today aren't you??

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Oh dear...sounds like the theists like to dish it out but object most volubly when it is sent back to them??

What is that?
Ah, insults yeah.

Why so defensive mehmet?? My oh my you ARE delicate today aren't you??

Yeah,a proper little tulip.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Oh dear...sounds like the theists like to dish it out but object most volubly when it is sent back to them??

What is that?
Ah, insults yeah.

Why so defensive mehmet?? My oh my you ARE delicate today aren't you??

Defensive?
And who am I defending here? Myself? Certainly not.

[KichigaiNeko]

Oh dear...sounds like the theists like to dish it out but object most volubly when it is sent back to them??

What is that?
Ah, insults yeah.

Why so defensive mehmet?? My oh my you ARE delicate today aren't you??

Defensive?
And who am I defending here? Myself? Certainly not.

My above comment still stands...why do you feel so defensive?? Not just in this thread, but all over the board today.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Oh dear...sounds like the theists like to dish it out but object most volubly when it is sent back to them??

What is that?
Ah, insults yeah.

Why so defensive mehmet?? My oh my you ARE delicate today aren't you??

Defensive?
And who am I defending here? Myself? Certainly not.

My above comment still stands...why do you feel so defensive?? Not just in this thread, but all over the board today.

I am not more defensive than any of you, friend.

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On the internet at least.
There is a saying in Turkish, "The water sleeps, the enemy does not."
As such, we are ever weary.

[genkaus]

1. Everything that is beyond your perception is unknown.

Bullshit. I cannot perceive the sea right now, but I do know that it exists.

Or were you talking about something that is imperceptible by definition? If so, then nothing imperceptible exists.

2. Things that are real exist beyond our perceptions of them

Bullshit. Things that are real exist independently from our perception of them.

This is a cheap attempt at confusion using dual meanings of the word "beyond" taken to mean both "independently of" and "inability of". This is called the fallacy of equivocation.

Belief is defined as confidence in something not susceptible to rigourouse proof; confidence in the unknown.

Incorrect. Belief means holding a proposition to be true. Presence or absence proof is immaterial. What you are talking about here is faith.

Therefore, if you are confident the computer screen is real, you believe it is real. (You do not "know" it is real, we have already established that we can't know if things are are, because by definition if they are real they exist beyond perception, and things that are beyond perception are unknown)

Your argument is based on false premises and fallacies as demonstrated above. I do know that the computer screen is real and I believe it as well.

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you are conflating knowledge and perception. Just because you perceive something doesn't mean you "know" it. Perception does not dictate reality, or do you think it does?

Perception dictates knowledge of reality, not reality itself.

However, human beings are special in the sense that they go beyond perception as a tool for gaining knowledge about reality. They integrate perception into concepts by process of abstraction and by doing so gain knowledge about things they do not perceive at that very moment.

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No, I can't shell. It was a question. I assumed no answer. Words are just words. We can define them however we want. People have been creating. Definitions for words since the advent of language. I get to do it to. You have defined atheism as a "lack of belief". I have defined God as reality. Deal with it and argue against "God" if you want.

And here I thought you were here for actual conversation.

Any intelligent discourse of ideas between two or more people requires a mutually agreed upon language and words with clearly defined meanings. By implicit consent, the language here is English and the words are used in the sense they are defined in a dictionary. And according to the dictionary atheism is lack of belief in god and god is not the same as reality.

Attempting to change the meaning in the middle of the discussion is devious, disingenuous and dishonest.

[Blam!]

The problem is that you have your radical atheists that try to spread their ideology through insulting means.

"You can be good without God" and atheistic messages in the displaying advertisements are hardly offensive comparing to religious billboards.

The problem is how insecure and destructive theists can be to people. Sometimes, ridicule is necessary to handle the idiots and uneducated trolls - too bad they take it an insult.

[amkerman]

But genkaus. I don't believe the dictionary definition of "God" does justice to the concept. I believe the definition of "reality" better does. Am I not entitled to that? As I previously told Shell, I am the one making the argument. Proper etiquette requires I get to define the terms. Many of you have continuously refused my argument that one cannot "lack belief". It's as if simply because q dictionary has defined atheism ath way it MUST be true. Hogwash. I believe reality exists. I believe that reality is God. I believe the two words are synonyms. You must accept that definition if we are to have a proper argument.

If, on the otherhand, you want to make an argument against God, I am willing to hear it. In that case, you get to set the terms, and I will follow them.