RE: Atheist Dogma
April 21, 2020 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2020 at 2:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The vast majority of posts in a loonthread "go nowhere". We still post in them. Personally, I feed trolls because they don't seem to be able to help themselves. Like a goldfish, they just eat and eat and eat until they explode.
What concern? What problem? It's not impossible for the definitions to be unclear or complicated - but you certainly haven't given me any reason to think that they were.
There are people who don't believe in gods. They're atheists.
There are people who do believe in personal intervening gods. They're theists.
The fact that we call ourselves atheists instead of adeists is a consequence of the deference you mention above..but even that doesn't change that the terms and their definitions are accurate descriptions of a group of people who do and don't believe in the items to which the terms refer.
Who cares which would be more adverse to any given thing?
Theism is the belief in a personal intervening god. If you believe in a personal intervening god, but not an ontological doctrine that suggests a supernatural reality dimension of reality, you're still a theist.
-and you're not the only theist who thinks that way.
What concern? What problem? It's not impossible for the definitions to be unclear or complicated - but you certainly haven't given me any reason to think that they were.
There are people who don't believe in gods. They're atheists.
There are people who do believe in personal intervening gods. They're theists.
The fact that we call ourselves atheists instead of adeists is a consequence of the deference you mention above..but even that doesn't change that the terms and their definitions are accurate descriptions of a group of people who do and don't believe in the items to which the terms refer.
Who cares which would be more adverse to any given thing?
Theism is the belief in a personal intervening god. If you believe in a personal intervening god, but not an ontological doctrine that suggests a supernatural reality dimension of reality, you're still a theist.
-and you're not the only theist who thinks that way.
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