RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 7, 2018 at 8:32 pm
(May 7, 2018 at 7:37 pm)Quick Wrote: I'd say the belief that there is no God is a faith as well. The only way for your belief to not be a faith is to say you don't know since there isn't proof one way or another.
Absolutely incorrect.
First of all, atheism is not the belief that there is no god. Atheism is the rejection of the claims made by theist that there is a god.
At its most fundamental, atheism is nothing more, than not being convinced that a god exists.
Second, how is not being convinced of an unsupported claim, a faith based position?
I'll bet you disbelieve in many supernatural claims (bigfoot, alien abductions, Jinn, tarot cards, etc, etc). Is you disbelief in any of those a faith based position?
Do you require faith to disbelieve in the Greek pantheon of gods?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
