(January 23, 2013 at 1:59 am)Justcurious Wrote: 1. Is there an organized group of atheists that has a global presence?
2. For what reason do you go about and try to disprove the beliefs of the theists?
3. Isn't the belief/knowledge that there is without a doubt no God/gods also faith based? ( I don't just mean the Christian God, but the existence of higher beings in general, and please don't bring up the stupid flying spaghetti monster argument).
1: There are atheist movements in various countries but each movement is concerned with issues specific to the countries. For example, these are the aims of atheists in the US.
http://www.atheistrev.com/2012/01/atheis...-2012.html
Atheists living in countries where there's no anti-atheist bigotry won't be making a stand against anti-atheist bigotry.
2: Not all atheists go about trying to disprove theists' beliefs. Some atheists believe in religious tolerance although this doesn't mean they tolerate everything done in the name of religion. They don't tolerate everything done in the name of politics or industry, either.
3: I think this relates to the Spectrum of theistic probability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of...robability
Quote:6: De facto atheist. Very low probability, but short of zero. "I don't know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there."
7: Strong atheist. "I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung knows there is one."
Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as "1" due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves "7" because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind. In print, Dawkins self-identified as a '6', though when interviewed by Bill Maher[3] and later by Anthony Kenny,[4] he suggested '6.9' to be more accurate.
Some atheists do rate themselves as 7, though. If they claim they KNOW God doesn't exist it's technically a belief because, as yet, there is no concrete scientific proof for the non-existence of any deity. The way I see it, atheists have to be very careful how they answer questions about their views because it's all too easy to give the wrong impression.
