RE: Beginner's Guide to Atheism.
January 18, 2018 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2018 at 11:26 am by Huggy Bear.)
(January 17, 2018 at 11:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 17, 2018 at 1:15 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: That most definantly is a claim, you're stating something with a degree of certainty, where's the evidence to back it up?
What ever happened to 'I don't know' being the default position as atheists claim?
Pretty sure that's a clear-cut statement of agnosticism.
Of course, many of us atheists, myself included, are indeed agnostic atheists regarding some or all gods. There are a few I'm certain don't exist due to internal contradictions. Your god is in that group.
Do you mind elaborating on these contradictions?
(January 15, 2018 at 10:36 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Sick Rik AND Huggy?! Jesus...they just couldn’t stop themselves from coming in and taking a stinky dump all over, could they?You appear to be the first troll post, good job.
(January 15, 2018 at 11:38 pm)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote:(January 15, 2018 at 9:37 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: (1) I thought atheism was simply not having beliefs in any god, (2) if that's the case then why would one need a guide?
Regarding (1), IMO, it is a fair description of atheism. Regarding your inquiry in (2), IMO, it can be very useful to have a guide and/or support. For example, if an individual wants to go about expressing his or her individuality (views on theism, atheism, politics, philosophy, etc.) in a civil and rational manner to others, especially if the majority of these people disagree with this individual's thinking, then a guide/support could be a useful tool for accomplishing that goal: it can equip that individual with a better understanding of his or her positions and give him or her the confidence to speak up and remind others that people are different (provided that it is safe to do so), rather than staying silent due to ignorance of one's positions and/or a lack of experience in engaging conflicting views .
Here's the problem, if the atheists default position is "I don't know" (which has been stated on many occasions), then you're just trading one form of indoctrination for another.
Also I don't agree that atheism is ONLY not having beliefs in a god, if one wants to be technical, the -ism in atheism denotes a system, this is why I say atheism is indicative of a religion.
