RE: Is atheism a belief?
February 26, 2019 at 4:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2019 at 5:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 26, 2019 at 4:52 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(February 26, 2019 at 9:15 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: They can all be rejected out of hand for attempting to manufacture a referent rather than describe one.
Good; you have given the reasons why you reject these concepts of god.
Your atheism is not simply a lack, but a commitment to certain criteria by which you judge and reject concepts.
Sure, I'll refer you to some of my other comments in thread about this
Quote:It's a fact of education and maturity that I could not possibly have known how full of shit they actually were as a young child. I was working on curious george at the time, not secular philosophy, scientific theory, critical skepticism, or anthropology.
I have all kinds of reasons and rationalizations for things today that I didn't possess when I was working on curious george, not just about gods..either, ofc. When I was working on curious george the only reason I could have given you for my atheism..a term I would not have recognized, would be to assert that I didn't believe in gods. Why didn't I believe in gods? No reason known or in particular.
All of the rest since then and all that you might see on the boards today is just stuff surrounding that initial a-rational intuition. I suspect that people who grew up believing can identify the thing that "made them atheists" in a way that I simply couldn't. There are atheists for reason x.
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