(October 4, 2015 at 9:56 am)bambi_swag Wrote: I thought this whole "belief" thing was covered. ONCE and for the LAST time, Atheism is a "disbelief in God" and not a belief. Gnostic Atheism is only "belief". And Gnostic anything is pretty rare.
No, it is lack of belief in theistic claims. "Disbelief in God" entails active rejection of belief in this "God", which although can be embraced by the category, is not central to atheism. Theism says "a god exists"; atheism says "I need justification before I can believe that claim. Got any?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
