RE: No problems with atheism then...
August 22, 2011 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 11:05 am by Godnose.)
(August 22, 2011 at 10:20 am)Tiberius Wrote: There are no problems with that slogan; in fact it was chosen because it is more philosophically accurate (and therefore more defensible) than "There is no God".
Like: "There might be such things as electrons" would also be more philosophically accurate than "Electricity exists". Yeah!
The slogan completely lacks power and seemed to me to undermine the credibility of the atheist position rather than support it. If anything it lent more power to the "its only a theory" position.
"There is no reason to believe there is a God" might have been a bit better.
I'm not interested in "defensible" slogans. The best form of defence is attack. I would say "There is no such thing as god" or "God is a myth" and then let the arguments begin. This one went off like a damp squib.