Athiesm is a Faith?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Not its not a faith.
Not believing in something, isn't a faith.
Its more like the opposite actually.

I contend that if you cant prove the position you take even if you express such a position as a negative then you are still accepting some part on faith regardless of who has the burden of proof.

A lack of faith is not a position, its the lack the one.

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In truth I would find the Idea that death was the ultimate end comforting at one level in that I would never be accountable beyond my life for what I have done during it but at another level I would find the idea that life is a pointless accident and in the great scheme of things irrelevant no mater what we do as individuals or as a society unpallitable too.

I hate this argument. It's as though giving 'reason' to something is impossible unless there's something 'beyond us' to judge us on it.

A lot of theists use the 'no accountability" argument to insinuate that we, as godless heathens, effectively get away with what we will becuase hey, who cares? Nobody's judging us!

FALSE

What about judging ourselves, not on spiritual terms, but by terms others can relate to? What about judging ourselves on a level we understand by, for example, by many lives we make better by being good people ourselves, or by not being total dicks?

I see this argument as the reverse of how a theist sees it. I honestly believe that some theists think like this becuase they want to be judged on a narcissistic level. "Look at me [god], look at all the good things I've done in my life".

And I read once that pride was a sin.