(December 28, 2018 at 12:50 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: A person may not believe your story..or a person my positively disbelieve your story...
That's right. That's what I mean by "rejecting a claim."
Quote:but it's just one god story in a sea of others.
That's right. A person may need lots of different reasons to reject lots of different claims.
Quote:The vast majority of people here, and atheists at large, are agnostics.
That's fine. Agnostics are also perfectly capable of rejecting (i.e. refusing to accept as true) a claim.
Quote:They don't have any positive beliefs against gods...
That's fine. They still have positive beliefs concerning various claims about gods. Namely, whether the claims are persuasive or not.
Quote:They may positively disbelieve in your tiny drop...
They would have to positively reject any religious claim they had heard in order to continue being an atheist.
Quote:but that doesn't mean that this attitude extends to a positive disbelief of the entire ocean
That's true. No one has heard every single possible claim.
To be an atheist only requires rejecting as unpersuasive those claims which one has heard.
