RE: Is atheism a belief?
December 28, 2018 at 8:09 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2018 at 8:12 am by Belacqua.)
(December 28, 2018 at 8:01 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Possible Atheist B simply doesn't believe in your silly stories
Does he reject them for reasons, or for no reasons?
(December 28, 2018 at 8:09 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: they were skeptics who embraced a different metaphysics and philosophical outlook.
Right. The different metaphysics and philosophical outlook to which they were committed made them doubt the claims of the people who said there were gods.
In other words, when presented with the claims of religious people, the skeptics rejected those claims based on prior intellectual commitments (i.e. beliefs).
