RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 14, 2019 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2019 at 12:13 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(March 14, 2019 at 3:09 am)Catharsis Wrote: I'm sure atheists believe in some things, or am I wrong about that?
Just because it's disbelief or the conviction there's no possibility a creator god exists doesn't mean they don't believe in other things, I think, things like loyalty or servitude.
Yes they do, however the meaning of the word "belief" isn't really the same in both instances.
Once means to profess acceptance as real, even though there is no direct evidence for it, and the other means to "value" something.
They are different. Trying to get away with saying they are the same is the equivocation fallacy.
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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