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Why don't some people understand lack of belief?
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RE: Why don't some people understand lack of belief?
(April 2, 2018 at 10:30 am)Lutrinae Wrote:
(April 2, 2018 at 9:50 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: "Does God exist?"

No.

Now you can sleep easier at night.

And I can appreciate someone like you who isn't afraid to state their opinion forthrightly.

I don't understand why so may atheists are ashamed to say plainly that they don't believe in God. Instead, like Khem, they have to go into these long-winded explanations making all kinds of subtle distinctions, like gnostic versus agnostic atheists. Who cares? Either you believe in God or you don't. It really isn't more complicated than that. I'm not scared to say I don't believe in fairies, because whether fairies exist or not has no bearing on any fundamental question and there's no serious reason to believe that they do. I don't feel the need to call non-fairy belief some weaselly "lack of belief" default position. I'm not terrified of the question "Why not?"
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RE: Why don't some people understand lack of belief? - by Neo-Scholastic - April 2, 2018 at 1:46 pm

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