RE: Why don't some people understand lack of belief?
April 2, 2018 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2018 at 2:11 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 1, 2018 at 4:42 pm)Die Atheistin Wrote: I've heard some people say that you can either believe that there is a God or that there is no God. Can't they comprehend the idea of the lack of faith? Or are they unwilling to accept it?
Well, the problem is that they like to equivocate.
If "I do believe there is no God" just means exactly the same thing as "I don't believe there is a God", then there's no problem.
But if atheists were to say there's no difference then the theists are just gonna make the irrational equivocation that believing there is no God is objectively finding the absence of God and therefore having absolute knowledge and certainty that God isn't real. Which is silly because how the fuck can you find the absence of something? What does that even mean? Absence isn't anything. What are you supposed to be finding? Nothing? Finding nothing? Not like failing to find something, but finding a non-thing, that makes no sense. There are no non-things, that's the whole point!
The TL;DR: It's just theists wanting to lump all atheists into strong atheism even when only agnostic atheism is justified, so they can point the finger and say "You're irrational too, hypocritical atheists!"
But some of us aren't falling for it.
