RE: Atheist Dogma
April 23, 2020 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2020 at 10:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
"Atheists can be dogmatic" is not interchangeable with "atheism is a dogma". Any person can be dogmatic, about anything. If we're speaking about atheists as a demographic when we make some claim to the dogma of atheism, rather than the claim of atheism itself - then we should indicate as much. Failure to do so produces a subtle but deleterious equivocation, while telling us nothing interesting or unknown about people and their ability to be dogmatic.
Let's see how the author of the book recommended mentioned above defines atheism.
Looks like a lackist to me.
Let's see how the author of the book recommended mentioned above defines atheism.
Quote:A provisional definition of atheism might still be useful, if only to indicate the drift of the book that follows. So I suggest that an atheist is anyone with no use for the idea of a divine mind that has fashioned the world. In this sense atheism does not amount to very much. It is simply the absence of the idea of a creator god.
Looks like a lackist to me.
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