(May 26, 2018 at 3:05 pm)Ybe Wrote:(May 26, 2018 at 12:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Oh, and atheism isn't a BELIEF. It is a lack of belief.That is that something you believe though, right? You do believe atheism to be a lack of belief in G?
If that's not what you believe, then that would turn in to:
I don't believe that atheism is a lack of belief in G?
No, atheism is a lack of a belief in any deity by DEFINITION. That is what the word means, no more no less.
You can't simply show up and arbitrarily redefine common words to suit whatever crank agenda you might have.
If that were to be the case, we could redefine "theist" to mean "deluded crackpot" and "christian" to mean "moronic liar".
Surely you can understand that such stupid ad-hoc redefinitions would be utterly bovine and meaningless.
In actual fact, simply being an atheist tells you one thing and one thing only. That the person does not believe in any deity. That is all.
It tells you exactly nothing at all about any other beliefs they may or may not hold.
I realise that your desperately and fervently wish that there were some "atheist dogma" or "atheist priesthood" or "atheist belief". However, you feverishly making such things up out of whole cloth does not somehow magically make them real.
Facts are stubborn things.