RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 9, 2019 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2019 at 11:01 am by Acrobat.)
(April 9, 2019 at 10:31 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: People can and do think that life truly signifies something without thinking that a god exists. This alone demonstrates that the two are not equivalent, that accepting one proposition does not lead to your state of of belief.
You mean people can and do think that some concepts of god do not exist, while believing in my definition of God. They believe in my God without calling this God.
In reality I never met such atheist, pretty much all them I ever met think meaning at best is subjective, are existential nihilist, or lack a belief one way or the other. They sound to me like those 8% of self identifying atheists, who indicate they believe in God, on the Pew Survey.
Quote:I don't think that this is actually why you believe at all.
No it is actually the only reason I believe.
Quote:Theism is the belief in a personal and intervening god. Not the belief that life has meaning. Atheists are not people who don't believe that their lives have meaning...they are people who don't believe in gods.
Theism isn't a belief in a personal and intervening god, dummy, lol. Hence why deism, pantheism etc.... are all forms of theism.
Now, if some atheist thought that belief in God is a belief in a personal or intervening god, then you might have bunch of confused deist or pantheist out there identifying incorrectly as atheist.