(February 12, 2012 at 1:56 pm)whateverist Wrote:(February 12, 2012 at 1:51 pm)RW_9 Wrote: Yes, you would have no beliefs - including a belief in a deity. Thus, atheism. Atheism is nothing more than a lack of belief in a deity/deities. Nowhere did I say that a wittle baby makes a conscious decision to say "there is no god." That is not required for atheism.
Careful. Are rocks atheists? I'm pretty sure they have no belief in gods.
they also have no disbelief... they're inanimate... I... do you know what, I don't even know why I tried to humor you. But just in case, if rocks have no belief in God then by pure definition alone, yes. they are atheists.
For me, The biggest Biblical contradiction is this:
''Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me''
Exodus 20:4-5
I am a jealous god? Isn't that one of the seven deadly sins? Oh dear me. And even worse... He's not going to punish the person who dislikes him... but his Children, and his children's children? Without trail? Oh, so much mercy God... How merciful you really are.
