(July 19, 2012 at 8:54 pm)Felasco Wrote: THEISM: People who know they have beliefs.
ATHEISM: People who don't know they have beliefs.
Point one: making up your own definitions to suit your arguments is dishonest. I could just as easily redefine those terms to mean "people who know they have feet" and "people who don't know they have feet" respectively and I've just defined those concepts into existence, at least as far as whatever point I'd be trying to support by doing so.
Point two: I am an atheist, yet I know that I believe in all sorts of things; many of them are probably in line with what others, including theists, believe. However, gods and similar inventions are not among them. If I have beliefs of which I am unaware, they clearly play no conscious part in my life and I cannot be held accountable for them.
Point three: when discussing systems of thought, -isms are not descriptions of people. The suffix you want is -ists.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
