RE: Am I still an atheist if I believe in a higher being?
August 9, 2015 at 11:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2015 at 11:32 am by Mr.wizard.)
(August 9, 2015 at 11:26 am)vixene Wrote:(August 9, 2015 at 10:36 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Well, actually - on the internet you get instantly dismissed and validity of your contributions and opinions are undermined, because that's what people (most of them - idiots anyway) do on the internet. ;P
That's if you make their jobs easier by making unsubstantiated claims without backing it up. Which a lot of religious people tend to do. And some lazy atheists. A category which I may fall into.
(August 9, 2015 at 10:37 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: Labels are useful when regarding these religious topics, because it allows the debates to progress much easier. For example, if you described yourself as a Christian and I used Jesus in many references regarding your stance on a topic and then you said "well I really don't believe in Jesus", then we have to start over from square one and spend a good deal of time figuring out what you believe.
But there's a very thin line between a deist and a weak atheist. In fact I'd say they were pretty much the same.
NO NO NO, Deist belive in a god and Atheists do not, the positions couldn't be more opposite, Deism is a form of Theism.
