Is Atheism Intellectual Cowardice?

[Castle]

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I agree, I wouldn't say that those things are cowardice, you can lack those things (reason, logic, science) and be brave sure (One might joke that its harder for one to be brave WITH those things =P). However, I would class anybody who refuses to look at other arguments, any head-sand inserters as cowards. The brave delve into the unknown. That's not to say that everyone who was brought up to believe x (and let me just state for the record this includes those who were raise as anything, atheist, agnostic, deists, theists...) is a coward. But if/when they realise that they might be wrong and have only been presented with one side, they now have a choice to make. A) Investigate further, do some research, or b) ignore any doubts in favour of believing what makes them feel comfortable/what they were brought up believing because that's what everyone else important to them believes. The second choice? THAT'S cowardly (and lets be fair, that's probably the perception of theists among a lot of people (I know I've thought it))

Regarding refutation: A) Burden of proof and what-have-you, where's the evidence FOR the existence of whatever it is you're proposing exists? + what Nazz said a few posts up (Only minus the swearing =P). b) What is it that you're proposing? Did a quick search, 38 pages of posts, wasn't in your introduction, not really up to going through them to find where you explained you're beliefs. Mind chucking us a link to where you explained what your beliefs are?

castle: everything is connected? Depends on how connected we're talking, diving into things like pantheism and pansychism. Yes you can believe in spiritual stuff as an atheist, the one thing you can't believe in by definition is a god/s, as someone else on here has said, the raelians are atheists, all atheism is is: "A) the lack of belief in a god or gods, B) believing that no god or gods exist". Of the four horsemen I'd wager that Sam Harris is the one down your alley, look him up.

A good autotuned song (no really) "we're all connected"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

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I use the wizard of Oz as somewhat of a guild line

Within me is the heart, courage and brains, for me courage is most important, which allow me to confront every event or problem. I would be more of the scarecrow kind of guy searching for a brain yet oddly enough he was the one who came up with most of the ideas in the journey. By knowing that, I am what i am, make me pretty happy with the surrounding.