(November 1, 2021 at 6:21 pm)GaryAnderson Wrote:(November 1, 2021 at 6:17 pm)Foxaire Wrote: I can see how most every one is going to get stuck on the title, considering there is no such thing as sects of atheism.
Atheists are varied people. The only thing we all have in common is our lack of belief in god(s). Atheism is not a belief system, per say, so much as it is merely an absence of belief in a deity or deities.
The soul does not exist. People tend to confuse the conscience for a soul. As far as an afterlife, there simply isn't one.
The title is provocative for sure.
Okay thank you for answering both questions. You’re saying the soul and the afterlife doesn’t exist. This is a belief system because nobody has proof and you’ve defined yourself as having a “lack of belief”.
What are you doing?
No, what was described is a lack of belief. You tagging it ‘a belief system’ doesn’t make it so.
That said, there’s no bar to atheists believing in things - we are defined by the thing in which we do not believe.
Boru
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