RE: What is Atheism?
March 8, 2017 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 8, 2017 at 3:40 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 8, 2017 at 3:17 pm)SteveII Wrote: By redefining atheism as a "lack of belief" you mean non-theist and as such now encompass all the positions other than theism (atheists, agnostics, verificationists, babies, the impaired, my dog, and park benches). So 'atheism' ceases to have any meaning pertaining to a view of how the world is and simply becomes a psychological state.
Indeed. It trivializes the word.
I don't put a lot of stock in it, so trivialize away. It's of no concern to me. Atheist, non-theist, agnostic .. I answer to all of those. I don't wear "atheist" for any occasion that I wouldn't just as well go with "non-theist". "Agnostic" of course is for entirely different occasions. Between "agnostic" and the other two, I find "agnostic" the more significant in my own life. The other two truly are throw-away terms for things I'm not which don't really matter to me other than that, yes, technically they fit.
