(November 21, 2019 at 5:43 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(November 21, 2019 at 3:37 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Admitting that atheism is simply a lack of belief would destroy a lot of his other arguments.
Atheism is a lack of belief among stones and lizards.
If you are a grown-up human being who has heard and rejected religious claims, it is something more than a lack.
While I agree with the overall point you're making (so you're not in your own here), I think the application of the term atheism/theism to stones and lizards and other such things might be problematic. It's like applying the "with hair"/bald dichotomy to God and then saying God is bald because he has no hair.
