RE: Never call other humans disbelievers!
October 29, 2018 at 7:42 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2018 at 7:59 pm by GrandizerII.)
(October 29, 2018 at 7:34 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: You kindle some hope in me. It really felt up to that point with the members here it was you're damned if you and you're damned if you don't... sort of thing.
I don't know of any atheist here who was bothered because they were called disbelievers.
(October 29, 2018 at 7:27 pm)Belaqua Wrote: This reminds me of the endless Internet debates among atheists about who is really an atheist. Some people want to claim that babies are atheists because they lack belief. Others say this is silly, because it would also include rocks and lizards as atheists. Better to say that an atheist (at least of the type who posts on web sites) is someone who has heard religious claims and rejected them according to reasons.
Which is why I would redefine an implicit atheist as the type of atheist with a current potential to [possibly] consciously reject the existence of god but has not had that potential actualized. This will thereby not include rocks, lizards, or human babies. Otherwise, yes, this would sound really silly.
