(July 2, 2025 at 9:34 am)Secular Heckler Wrote:(July 2, 2025 at 7:24 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There’s a difference between ‘believe’ and ‘believe in’. ‘Believe’ is not a synonym for support. ‘Believe in’ can be a synonym, but it ain’t necessarily so. Consider:Yes it does - genius.
‘I believe pizza is a food’ doesn’t mean ‘I support the idea of pizza as a food.’
(July 2, 2025 at 7:24 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘I believe in the Bible’ can mean ‘I support the Bible’ or ‘The Bible exists.’You are just trying to "split the hair." You, like most atheists, do not "see" it correctly, because it shifts your understanding of the definition of theism and atheism, because the dictionaries use the ambiguous term "belief" in the definitions. Theists like the term, because it suggests a supernatural phenomenon that has to occur in cognitive processing. And that is what atheists like to use to counter by suggesting that the cognitive phenomenon does not occur in them. Atheists are correct when they explain that belief in god is indoctrinated, but fail to understand that that means that it is a doctrine that the theist really "believe in" - support of the doctrine.
SEE?
Put on your critical thinking hat!
Do you believe your rudeness is endearing? Or do you just believe in being a complete asshole?
I'm your huckleberry.
