Atheism

[Kyuuketsuki]

You were COMPLETELY wrong to call it religious.

And I admitted as much ... can't you read?

Does a rejection of 2012 require faith? NO
Does a rejection of homeopathy require faith? NO
Does a rejection of the god concept require faith? NO

Belief/Claim that there is no god is a position of faith! The ASSUMPTION that there is no god until otherwise demonstrated is not! The difference may be slight but it is significant!

It all comes down to summation of evidence, if evidence is nil reason to believe also = nil, there is nothing wrong with acknowledging the idea but treating it as anything more than an unsupported idea is stupid...

It is wrong to claim that something is so when there is no evidence to support that view ... that the god in question won't come out to play means there is no evidence and that supports nothing (positive or negative) but DOES allow one to assume non-existence until otherwise indicated. That is why the Muppets have to resort to arguments like TAG ... metaphysical arguments of that kind are the only thing they have when they have no evidence.

But a rejection of evidence in order to support a belief DOES require faith.

Where did I say it didn't? What I am saying is that a claim that there is no god, in the absence of evidence, is as wrong as the claim there is such a god in the absence of evidence.

Kyu

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