RE: Is atheism a belief?
January 24, 2019 at 8:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2019 at 8:12 am by Acrobat.)
(January 24, 2019 at 7:28 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(January 23, 2019 at 9:34 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: I can't? Here ya go. Next...
You keep spamming that book even though you haven't read it. Have a quote from the author...
Quote:"I do not always believe, let alone know, if God exists. I do not always know he, she, or it does not exist either, though there are long patches in my life when it seems God never did exist."
Perhaps that might give you a hint at his chosen title.
But I doubt you have the wit. Or the honesty.
I also previously cited that 1 in 5 self identifying atheists also claim to believe in God.
So there’s a lot more than the guy who wrote that book.
There are also plenty of agnostic who don’t accept the typical definitions of atheism/agnosticism often presented in places like this, like Neil Tyson, Carl Sagan, Noam Chomsky, Huxley etc...
They define their agnosticism as distinct from atheism.
I hold to this distinction and definition, because the distinction most theists find useful, is between belief and lack of belief, not between knowing and not knowing, which exists in the traditional agnostic/atheist distinction, but not in the newly formulated ones.
If most people here merely lack a belief one way or the other when it’s come to the question of God, they’d fall under the category of agnostic. If they believe God doesn’t exist, they’d fall under the category of atheist.