RE: What is Atheism?
March 8, 2017 at 4:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2017 at 4:24 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(March 8, 2017 at 4:17 pm)SteveII Wrote:(March 8, 2017 at 4:06 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I'm not 'deliberately excluding' anything. I'm just not believing in a single claim because I don't think it's met its burden of proof.
But why does assessing a 'burden of proof' have anything to do with it. You could have never heard any proof (nor want to) and have a belief there is not God.
Because atheism is a response to a claim, literally a-theism. It's a response to the claim that a god(s) exist. Any claim that makes assertions about reality has a burden of proof. I simply don't think that the claim of theism has met this burden - ergo, I'm an a-theist.
You won't find me anywhere on this forum making the claim "There are no gods" because I don't think I'd be able to (or anyone, really) meet that claim's burden of proof.
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