(July 18, 2022 at 10:47 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(July 18, 2022 at 8:22 pm)Jehanne Wrote: We're not a monolithic group here. I find it incomprehensible that any atheist could be in Category 7 (absolutely certain that there is no God), which caused the late Professor Carl Sagan to state, "By some definitions atheism is very stupid."
I was surprised by the poll of AF members in which 13.8% of the members considered themselves theists. I just do not see their activity. That said, I full well know that atheists, as a category, run the gambit. Yet, that is not my experience of the more active atheist members who IMHO do share a common set of assumptions. The first category reject theism for ontological reasons, i.e. taking the anti-realist position with respect to intellectual objects. The second category of atheist rejects theism for epistemilogical reasons, i.e. asserting foundationalism as the only valid approach for warranting belief.
The categories for rejecting the existence of God are not mutually exclusive.
