(July 7, 2022 at 8:43 am)Angrboda Wrote:(July 7, 2022 at 8:41 am)TheJefe817 Wrote: I don't think I really understood this, to my great shame, until I started to examine my own doubts more deeply. I actually explained the difference to my daughter this weekend in terms of burden of proof and it was like a lightbulb went off for her too.
I'm not sure I follow you.
Sorry, my fingers were not keeping up with my brain. I mean I did not understand that many (in my experience, most, myself now included) define their atheism as "lack of belief in god" rather than "there is no god", and was previously in my christian days holding atheists to the wrong standard and demanding their evidence of no god while providing no evidence for god myself. I was also assuming a closed mind based on that misunderstanding.
