(December 31, 2012 at 8:04 am)Aractus Wrote:(December 30, 2012 at 7:26 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Atheism is not a faith. Neither is it a belief, an ideology or a religion. It is simply a lack of belief in the existence of a god or indeed gods.That much is correct.
But
A lot of atheists, especially the kind that join atheist forums™ have a belief that God doesn't exist. That's different to not having a belief. Faith is another word for "belief", esp. where said belief cannot be proven.
So do you believe that Unicorns do not exist.
If you do it makes unicorn non-belief your faith...according to you.
I believe that there is no god for the same reason I believe there is no elephant in my kitchen, lack of evidence for the positive position.
There is a difference in a belief in a positive position (I believe elephants live in custard tins) and a belief in a negative position (I do not believe elephants live in custard tins) particularly if the positive position is silly.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.