RE: Is atheism a belief?
January 23, 2019 at 5:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2019 at 5:24 pm by Acrobat.)
(January 23, 2019 at 4:28 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(January 23, 2019 at 3:24 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Both.
An Atheist can be:
1-Some one who knows God does not exist.
2-Some one who believes God does not exist.
3-An atheist can also be someone, who doesn't believe or know one way or the other. His lack of belief one way or the other, would still classify him as an atheist, since he doesn't posses a belief in God, like the other two examples.
Some people might know I'm not single.
Some people might believe I'm not single.
And some people might not believe or know one way or the other.
What they all have in common, is that they a lack a belief in that I'm married.
Atheism is label that can incapsulate all three under one umbrella.
It's very funny that non-atheists think they can tell atheists how they think.
There are those who have or take no position at all with respect to the subject.
They are not a-theists, as for them, theism is meaningless.
A-theism is a specific position with respect to another specific position. No theism.
A-theism is not a general position.
Are the Piraha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3
atheists ? They have no conception of a god.
If someone does not recognize the specific position (theism) as coherent, there is no position to lack, (for them).
Therefore igthesim is a far more accurate label, for them.
Lol, you claim to not be an atheist as well, so what gives you the right to tell atheists what they think?
