RE: How do you become an Atheist?
January 1, 2011 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2011 at 11:33 am by Welsh cake.)
(January 1, 2011 at 12:52 am)Ryft Wrote: Nevertheless, atheism does indeed make claims about God, viz. the claim that God is not required.Atheism is broadly a response to theistic claims. While strong atheists can make ontologically negative claims about various deities in alphabetical order, it is still a response, a rejection of an ontologically positive claim a higher being exists. Other than that most of us including myself don't make claims about non-existent beings that we don't believe exist in reality or have sufficiently met their burden of proof.