RE: Is atheism a belief?
February 26, 2019 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2019 at 12:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 26, 2019 at 7:22 am)bennyboy Wrote: If someone says, "Do you believe in god?" a natural enough question is "Which God do you mean?" I don't think you'd ask a Biblical Christian that.
"Do you believe this guy?" "Which guy?" - clearly you know what a guy is. The concept of a guy is not meaningfully ambiguous or incoherent even if you're uncertain which guy they're talking about. If you don't believe in gods, or guys, it doesn't even matter which god or guy a person is referring to.
The simple knowledge of the conceptual set is enough grounds to determine ones status of belief, accurately - as ever...even in the absence of knowledge or full knowledge or irrelevant knowledge. Similarly, the answer for every person who believes in any god, to that same question, is "yes"". Simply yes. Not "which god?". It doesn't -matter- which god, they believe in god. Another one of those what month is it, tuesday bits.
That we respond to that question this way likely reflects the reality of the question being culturally loaded when someone asks it..
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