(September 18, 2012 at 5:41 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's really quite simple; perhaps that's why some people don't get it. Atheism is a specialised subset of scepticism, one dealing exclusively with theism
Even that isn't entirely accurate; people can blindly believe there is no God simply because that's how they were raised. Skepticism is about questioning everything and if you just blindly accept that God is bullshit without questioning it, you aren't really skeptic. I've always said, I'd rather have a discussion with an intelligent theist who has put intelligent thought into their beliefs than an atheist who is just blindly following what his parents told him to believe and doesn't know why he's an atheist.
I live on facebook. Come see me there. http://www.facebook.com/tara.rizzatto
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
