(January 6, 2012 at 1:14 pm)amkerman Wrote: fidel castronaut:
"atheism= the lack of belief in God or gods."
- You do know that definition is the most passive aggressive load of horseshit regardless of whether or not it's found in a dictionary or not right?
The very definition commits the fallacy of invincible ignorance.
If you are aware of an idea, regardless of what that idea is, you are automatically forced to form beliefs about it. It's unavoidable.
You mean as opposed to simple hyper-agresive as your tone suggests? Bad form sir, bad form. Saying a definitional attrbiute to a given word is "passive agressive" is a terrible use of the language and is evidently to anyone as verbose, tangential and thus largely irrelevent.
Anyway, I've come accross all this horse shit so many times It actually makes me want to be dragged naked through a sand paper museum.
"Even if you 'think' (You actually presupposed that we are unable to use our brains so does this invalidate?) you don't believe in anything...that's still a belief" - Is it? Really?
Anyway, I identify as an agnostic atheist - I'm not 100% sure that there is no god or gods, in fact there are countless billions of gods that may or may not exist, I can't know for sure. All I require is evidence of them, and I'll re-consider my stance - so my definition of atheism actually works just fine (lack of belief in a god or gods) - I don't "believe I don't believe" (???), neither do I believe, so what would you define atheism as then? The belief in non-belief?
"But first, learn how to think correctly."
I hope it's not too cold up there in your Ivory Tower, friend.