RE: My conclusions about weak Atheism.
April 5, 2018 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2018 at 8:52 am by robvalue.)
(April 5, 2018 at 8:36 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(April 5, 2018 at 8:32 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, I agree. In practical terms, it's all the same thing though. If you're not allowing for "God" when you are making decisions, then it's an irrelevancy.
Even if you're a theist, it's still irrelevant unless you think you have some actual information about God(s).
Oh yeah I agree, in 99.99% of all cases in daily life a 'strong atheist' will behave with as much regard to God as a 'weak atheist.' It's just in discussions having accurate, clear labels would be nice for shortcuts. I reject both claims of "there is a god(s)" and "there isn't a god(s)" because I don't think either claim has met its burden of proof. We just don't have a distinct term for someone who claims the latter, and we slot in "strong atheist" which just muddies the waters.
Yeah. Even though some people say "just agnostic", which I consider is incorrect for a weak atheist (second definition), it does at least differentiate. Maybe strong atheists could be "nongodbois".
Really, someone making a counter claim has gone beyond atheism so it could easily have its own name, even though it's a subset of atheism in general.
I prefer to send the question back and say, "Try again with words that mean something". Atheism is giving theism too much credit as a proposition, that it even deserves an answer.
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