(April 14, 2011 at 12:24 am)bliss Wrote: IMO, if you can't admit that you have your own beliefs, you are a coward. You are afraid to have your beliefs questioned, put under the same skepticism that you use against those that believe in God. Marx was a communist. Bertrand Russel was a rationalist. The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist. All these men are atheists, but they all have a specific system of ideology that is debatable in reasonable terms. To just call yourself an atheist without saying what you do believe in a debate is to have the discussion drowned in irrationality.
Way to give yourself the moral high-ground where you can sit up high in judgement of us, the poor and lost. And how supremely arrogant of you to assume that, like you, we must have our own belief system, our own ideology. Why should we?
Just because we are atheists that says nothing about what we do believe in, it simply says that we do not accept your premise that there is a god, a premise for which you have zero evidence or verisimilitude.
Are you saying that because we have no religion or belief in superstition we must therefore have to have an alternative ideology of some sort to take its place lest we be left with some gaping metaphysical chasm in our lives?
I tell you that I am an atheist without the desire to tell you anything concerning my ideology about life as this is an atheist forum and my ideology is irrelevant to that subject.