(June 15, 2009 at 12:32 pm)dagda Wrote: Kyu, I am sorry but atheism is a philosophy, it just isn't much of one. To be more exact, atheism is philosophies. Atheism is an umbrella term for dozens of different types of beliefs. These range from the very simple 'No God' style to the secular humanist to the Dawkinist. There are even certain brands of Buddhism which could be classed as Atheist philosophy. Pick one and try and defend it.
You can be as sorry as you like but atheism is one thing and one thing alone ... it is what you are when you cease to believe in all gods and that alone should give you a clue i.e. that it is utterly dependent on somethign else getting you there be that science, scepticism, a religion that doesn't enshrine gods. IT doesn't matter what gets you there, the fact is the atheism itself DOES not therefore it is NOT a philosophy in and of itself any more than theism is a philosophy ion and off itself ... for theism you need to embrace a religion to gain the philosophy, for atheism something else.
No matter how much you want atheism to be a philosophy (and like most theists it appears that you do because then you can brand it as something you want it to be) it isn't!
Kyu
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