(November 6, 2022 at 10:44 am)GUBU Wrote:(November 3, 2022 at 4:45 am)rlp21858 Wrote: Grand Nudger: from what ive gathered about the term "atheism", i believe it only means a disbelief in idols, what i think youve called "narrative devices". i believe this agrees with Christianity; it speaks against idolatry too, the worship of anything we can see or detect. by "narrative device", i think you mean that it is only a reference to a much larger something "behind the scene." as a Christian, i believe this is true, up to and including Christ himself. so i think that, basically, God is the good that these devices have been referencing.
You're very wrong about atheism, it's even in the name "a-" standing for anti, meaning against, disbelieving, etc. and "theism" being the belief in god.
Oh and christianity is very much about idols. god is an idol to the psyche of a spoiled toddler and Jesus contains millions of different idols within him, it all depends on who you're talking which idol is appearing currently.
The "a-" prefix more properly applies to that which is not applicable. Think of amorality. A rock or a robot are not immoral, they are amoral. A gnostic knows and an agnostic does not know. So we say a person who insists there is no god is an anti-theist but a person who concludes a god has not been demonstrated to exist is an atheist.
