RE: Is atheism a belief?
February 28, 2019 at 5:04 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2019 at 5:05 am by bennyboy.)
(February 28, 2019 at 4:30 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: If we have to refer to alternate timelines we're already spiraling around the moon. Maybe in the Kelvin timeline I'm a starship captain!If there are no alternate timelines, then by what criteria do you establish that one might believe other than one already does? You talk about capacity, but what does that mean to you? That an entity capable of language lacks a belief (because that's mainly what differentiates my beagle from me)? Say. . . the google mainframes? Are they atheist? I'd say no, because they aren't people, and because when I say "-ist," I'm talking about a person who is a proponent of a position.
You, so far as you've defined it, would say yes-- unless there's something more than language by which you'd establish the capacity for being a theist. Care to elaborate? Cuz I think you're going to have a hard time detailing those entities which should / shouldn't be called atheist.
