RE: Is atheism a belief?
December 28, 2018 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2018 at 10:56 am by Bucky Ball.)
(December 27, 2018 at 8:44 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(December 27, 2018 at 8:08 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: I was an atheist before I had any solid convictions about evidence, and even today, questions of whether or not some fucking fairy created the earth..as a gnostic atheist, don't have much bearing on my atheism.[...]
Here is a typical claim about God, which would be familiar to any Neoplatonic Christian, from Augustine to Simone Weil: "All good in the world derives from and ultimately points back to the form of the good, which is God."
I assume you reject this claim. Would it be correct to say that you find it to be nonsense?
When you reject it (if you do) do you have reasons to reject it? Or do you reject it out of habit, or for no reasons?
I reject that claim. All the good in the world "derives" from Yahweh's brother, the Babylonian god "Sin".

All the good except a couple things ...
1. the accident when Fleming accidentally dropped the mold in the Petri dish, and discovered antibiotics,
2. all the good, except when neurologists figured out (in the last 5-10 years), how to pull blood clots out of large brain vessels ... and stop strokes "in evolution"
Those were a little too tricky for the gods.
Yeah. It's fucking nonsense. All anyone has to do is look around.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist