RE: Atheist Dogma
April 21, 2020 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2020 at 11:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Were arguing about the word have, now...
I wonder what the difference is supposed to be between trivial atheism™ and atheism. It honestly seems to me like this thread has been a pejorative free association exercise. We might need to break out the dolls and see where atheism touched someone.
Regardless of whether a person thinks atheism is trivial, and regardless of whether a person thinks that atheism would be lazy, dumb, or stupid. Incoherent. Bad at words. On and on and on. It remains a fact that a person need only know what they do or do not believe in to be an atheist. A person never has to hear the word god a single time in their life to be an atheist. If, when someone does use the word god, and the thing they describe is something that this person already doesn't believe in - they didn't just become an atheist, or a "non-trivial atheist" - they already were. It's a simple issue of translation.
It's like not believing in the chupacabra. Doesn't matter what the word means in spanish. I don't need to have anyone explain that, and little to nothing that the person explains about a chupacabra, or their version of a chupacabra, will have any relevance to the question of what -I- do or don't believe.
If you don't believe in monsters..you were an a-chupacabra-ist before anyone ever told you what that word meant.
I wonder what the difference is supposed to be between trivial atheism™ and atheism. It honestly seems to me like this thread has been a pejorative free association exercise. We might need to break out the dolls and see where atheism touched someone.
Regardless of whether a person thinks atheism is trivial, and regardless of whether a person thinks that atheism would be lazy, dumb, or stupid. Incoherent. Bad at words. On and on and on. It remains a fact that a person need only know what they do or do not believe in to be an atheist. A person never has to hear the word god a single time in their life to be an atheist. If, when someone does use the word god, and the thing they describe is something that this person already doesn't believe in - they didn't just become an atheist, or a "non-trivial atheist" - they already were. It's a simple issue of translation.
It's like not believing in the chupacabra. Doesn't matter what the word means in spanish. I don't need to have anyone explain that, and little to nothing that the person explains about a chupacabra, or their version of a chupacabra, will have any relevance to the question of what -I- do or don't believe.
If you don't believe in monsters..you were an a-chupacabra-ist before anyone ever told you what that word meant.
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