RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 4, 2019 at 6:19 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2019 at 6:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 3, 2019 at 11:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 3, 2019 at 10:29 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: I never said I have no stance on it. I said, for me, the belief in a creator just isn't there.
Once you've been presented with an existential idea, the lack is no longer a thing. Someone says "I think there's a Skydaddy watching us and he's built an eternal paradise in which we might live when we die."
And you just lack this belief, huh? You don't-- oh, I don't know-- think it's complete horseshit? Are you telling me that you don't hold the belief that they are wrong?
.......a-theism..not a-christianity. You're allowed to know that the christian god is garbage and still be an agnostic atheist, lol. Neither atheism nor agnosticism are comments on the christian god specifically. What gnostic and agnostic atheists have told you in thread and the comments you yourself have offered demonstrate as much.
(March 4, 2019 at 12:30 am)Belaqua Wrote:More to the point, you couldn't, if it were. Just as I told you that there was no specific reason involved in my being an atheist. Don't know why, just the way it was. There are probably reasons™ for you to equivocate over from here to the end of time, but I'm unaware of whatever they would have been.(March 3, 2019 at 11:35 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: The latter statement doesn't follow from the former statements.
I lack agreement with what you say.
My lack is for no reason. I don't have to explain why.
You two are a trip, lol. You've got a grudge against a word.
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