(April 19, 2016 at 8:18 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(April 19, 2016 at 8:07 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Clearly it's not practical to list every single thing for which there's no evidence. That's why the word 'sceptic' (or 'skeptic' if you really must) exists, an umbrella term encompassing all those things. Atheism is simply a specialised subset of that, dedicated to one subject.
Why specialize though? Why emphasis on "God"?
Perhaps because a word was needed to distinguish between those that believe and those that don't. Incidentally, atheism doesn't put the emphasis on "God" alone. The focus is on all theistic claims and beliefs. There are thousands of gods worshipped throughout history and many still 'active' today. The big-G god is merely one amongst those many.
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.'
