(December 9, 2018 at 4:04 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(December 9, 2018 at 2:47 pm)Deesse23 Wrote: Belief in a supreme being or deity.
And let me tell you what you are gonna do next: you are desperately going to look for a counterexample, a dishonest one if necessary, then you are going to repost, ignoring the rest, particularly my challenge to tell the specifics you claimed beforehand about atheism.
The definition of 'god' is simply 'an object of worship', this can literally mean to be anything.
Some theists don't believe in one supreme being or deity, they believe in many different deities, Hinduism recognizes millions of deities.
So you went the dishonest route by conflating the commonly understood usage of "god" with a metaphorical use in order to try to bring atheism down to your level. "I know you are but what am I" may work when you are a child but it just shows the weakness in your position. Atheists respect and admire many things; some even like recreating many of the community aspects that they valued from their time as believers; that doesn't make them religious or link them to any "god" or make atheism a religion. If you are so embarrassed by not being able to admit that some people don't have a need to rely on a god then you need to work on your self-esteem.
