RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 1, 2019 at 8:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2019 at 8:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 1, 2019 at 8:44 am)bennyboy Wrote: Maybe we can refine the OP question to arrive at a better agreement.Theists can agree with atheists about the lack of value of religious insistitutions.
Maybe atheism is a belief, but rather than about gods, it's a belief about the value of religious institutions (i.e. a lack of value).
Quote:Maybe it's a belief that talking about gods is a waste of time.Theists can agree.'
Quote:In other words, maybe it's a slightly more apathetic anti-theism.You don't have to be an atheist to be an anti-theist.
Maybe atheism is exactly what it purports to be? Atheists can believe in any number of things, the only thing that makes a person an atheist, however, is one thing they don't believe in.
I asked you to start with some example of something that -was- a lack of belief because I strongly suspect that you're working with semantics under which there is no such thing, and if that's the case, if there are no states of belief described by not possessing the belief, then it would be unsurprising for you to think that atheism was not a nonexistent state. However, by semantics that don't allow for such states of belief, you'll have made it impossible to be an atheist.
Like above. Atheists aren't atheists - they don't like religions and they think talking about it is a waste of time. Atheism, you posit, isn't about god belief.
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