(December 14, 2015 at 7:56 pm)Delicate Wrote:(December 14, 2015 at 7:33 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Atheists believe lots of things. The only criterion is that the set of those beliefs not include any gods.
That's exactly the assumption everything I've said is compatible with.
What assumption? That atheists don't believe in gods? That's the definition, in the same way that not eating meat is the definition of being a vegetarian.
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.'