Beginner's Guide to Atheism.

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I thought atheism was simply not having beliefs in any god, if that's the case then why would one need a guide? Do you need a guide for your non- belief in Bigfoot? Do you feel the need to come out about various other non-beliefs? There's a lot of atheist hand wringing when it comes to God though, interesting.
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Any god, gods or goddesses.  Don't be sexist.

Perhaps you haven't noticed that there are two questions at play... the existential question and the ethics question.

Someone could reject the claims of a deity's existence but still hold to Divinity Ethics (sanctity and sin, purity and pollution, elevation and degradation) or vice versa, they can reject the ethics of religions and still hold to notions of some omni-x thingy out there somewhere (or in truth 'in there' given that Personal Jesus*/Allah = externalised ego).

Declaring non-belief to someone who holds to both positions (divine existence and divinity ethics) and for whom both those positions are inseparable can trigger the whole cognitive dissonance thing i.e. causes pain.

A guide is someone who knows the path.  It's only someone for the whom the path is yet untrodden would seek guidance.

It's not that complicated.

 

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DLJ, sometimes I am reminded that I could have studied things like you have studied, in order to make cogent responses like this.   But I went another track and went into a technical field (physics) where these questions don't even get asked. I'm learning a lot on the www while being an atheist, I can assure you. Especially about questions I never even thought to ask.