RE: Is atheism a belief?
February 28, 2019 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2019 at 6:01 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(February 28, 2019 at 5:41 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(February 28, 2019 at 12:05 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: The definition remains the lack of one thing.Yes, but in adults who live in a society, that lack is a belief that certain claims are untrue, based on prior premises.
No.
It's a description of a present condition. Nothing else.
If YOU (or anyone) wants to make more of it than the person whose state is described, that's your prerogative, but what you are describing is yourself, not the one with no belief. You don't know how they arrived at the present state, or what that involved. The "certain claims" do not even have to be addressed, nor do they necessarily merit (even) being addressed. You don't get to tell other people how they are thinking. The fact that others in the society, (even a majority) possess beliefs does not necessarily require a response, nor does it merit one.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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