(January 8, 2013 at 2:56 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(January 7, 2013 at 9:05 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: That is what atheists here are doing right? Telling us foolish theists all about the way things are. (Preachy, atheist counter-apologetics.)I can't tell if you're being satirical or not.
The purpose of apologetics is to defend a position. Atheism is technically not a position, it makes no claims, its not a world-view, there's nothing to defend, it barely qualifies as an "ism".
It's only an 'ism' in the same way metabolism is, it's a condition: the condition of not being a theist.