(April 18, 2020 at 7:05 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: And I maintain the your atheism is precisely the same as that of a bicycle.
OK, if it were true that atheism in a thinking person is a lack and nothing but a lack, then what you say would be true.
So you have persuaded me that atheism in thinking adults is not merely a lack.
Atheism in thinking adults consists of beliefs. These beliefs will vary based on the contingencies of what they've heard, but they will include things like:
~ The claims made by religious people are not persuasive.
~ The holy texts are not true.
These beliefs may or not be provable, depending on which religious claims we're talking about, but they are beliefs, in that they are things we hold to be true.
Atheism in thinking adults is comprised of beliefs.