RE: What is God?
August 9, 2015 at 4:21 am
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2015 at 4:22 am by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
(August 9, 2015 at 3:55 am)rexbeccarox Wrote:(August 9, 2015 at 1:53 am)pool Wrote: And the definition of Atheist according to Google is,
And a lot of atheists disagree with it.
Really? I've never encountered an atheist who would disagree with that definition...
... care to show us some examples?
(What i understood from robvalue's website)
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If someone says that the number of sweets in a bag is an even number then that person is making a claim.
When another person rejects that claim it doesn't necessarily mean that he is implying that the number of sweets in the bad is an odd number.It only implies that this person is rejecting the claim made by the first person,i.e,the number of sweets in a bag is an even number.
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If the second person does in fact imply that the no. of sweets in the bag is odd,then that person is also making a claim.
Similarly,
When a person rejects the claims made by a theist(i.e,belief in a god) it doesn't necessarily mean that the person rejecting the claim is disbelieving in the claim.It only means that the person rejecting the claim is simply rejecting the claim.
I'm too lazy to look for it,but many a people in this forum has told me that atheists are rejecting the claims made by theists,that they are not claiming anything.
And then others have told me that Atheists are people that doesn't believe in a God.
Correct me if i'm wrong.But disbelieving a claim is not the same as rejecting a claim?
Because disbelieving a claim would imply that the person disbelieving believes in whatever is the opposite of the claim(from rob's analogy,believing that the no. of sweets is an odd number) but rejecting the claim doesn't imply anything other than rejecting the claim.
In short,some atheists think that Atheism is rejecting the claims proposed by Theism while some others think that Atheism is a disbelief in God.
Guys,please please please please please don't eat me for saying this.I'm sorry if my stupidity annoys you.