(April 19, 2012 at 2:23 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(April 19, 2012 at 12:40 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if I'm an atheist yetThere's a simple test: Do you believe in a god or gods?
If you answer "yes" you're a theist. If you answer "no" you're an atheist. If you answer "define god" you're an ignostic. If you answer "I don't care" you're an apatheist.
If you cannot answer the question at all, then you're simply indeterminate about your beliefs and there's no shame in that.
Quote:I don't find atheism very appealing.Obviously. Atheism is the lack of belief of deities or rejection thereof. Its just a response to theistic claims. Atheism technically doesn't even qualify as an "ism", but that tells you nothing about what else you do believe in.
(April 19, 2012 at 11:44 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Thanks everyone. I feel like I'm in a theism recovery 12 step program now.There's only one step - simply don't believe in god or gods anymore.
Thanks for correcting me on atheism. I guess what I meant was I don't find the implications of atheism very appealing but obviously I'll take the truth no matter how depressing.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
