RE: On Defining Atheism: An Essay
August 20, 2015 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2015 at 2:17 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 20, 2015 at 1:32 pm)Manalive Wrote: [...]
To define atheism as a lack of belief is no definition at all. It is like a waiter asking you what you would like to eat from the menu, and you reply, “Certainly not the smoked salmon!” [...]
No, dumb-ass. It's more like a waiter asking you what you would like to eat and you replying "I'm not hungry and this is a public toilet, not a restaurant. F*** off!" It's perfectly practical, clearly understandable and all the definition you should need.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
