RE: If you deconstruct it, they will come
July 18, 2012 at 6:30 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2012 at 6:34 am by Creed of Heresy.)
Good show old sport, you quote a dictionary to define a set of ethos.
"Simply the absence of belief." If you really read the article you'd have stumbled on that sentence, along with the ones that the NARROWER definitions of atheism are the belief there is no god, and the middle ground is the rejection of belief in a god. Meaning you prefer to use the narrower definition instead of the broader one, and as has been posited to you about a thousand times now, this isn't the best decision to make due to the huge variances within atheism anyway. It'd be like me saying that all Christians think the Pope is between men and god; true for some, false for many others.
And yes, good job, you noticed the "anti" in my "religious views." As in, I am outright opposed to theism. But the same cannot be said for every atheist. And I did not read anywhere in the OP article that these individuals were having an anti-theistic event. So I'll just assume that was a non-sequitur. Unless of course it's meant to be an accusation in the derogatory sense or something, or an insinuation that I should feel it is open opposition to theists, or wish to view it as such, at least. Rest assured, I do not.
Quote:Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist
"Simply the absence of belief." If you really read the article you'd have stumbled on that sentence, along with the ones that the NARROWER definitions of atheism are the belief there is no god, and the middle ground is the rejection of belief in a god. Meaning you prefer to use the narrower definition instead of the broader one, and as has been posited to you about a thousand times now, this isn't the best decision to make due to the huge variances within atheism anyway. It'd be like me saying that all Christians think the Pope is between men and god; true for some, false for many others.
And yes, good job, you noticed the "anti" in my "religious views." As in, I am outright opposed to theism. But the same cannot be said for every atheist. And I did not read anywhere in the OP article that these individuals were having an anti-theistic event. So I'll just assume that was a non-sequitur. Unless of course it's meant to be an accusation in the derogatory sense or something, or an insinuation that I should feel it is open opposition to theists, or wish to view it as such, at least. Rest assured, I do not.
