RE: Atheism is not a belief!!
April 26, 2013 at 2:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2013 at 2:51 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 25, 2013 at 8:55 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Atheism by definition is a lack of belief in God; however that lack of belief itself entails certain other beliefs, not all of which are fully justified.
My lack of belief in the existence of a god does not entail other beliefs.
If we define belief as ' the psychological state of accepting a proposition as true', then I have no beliefs that are unjustified.
If someone is able to demonstrate that I hold a belief that is not fully justified, do you know what i"d do? I'd stop believing it. That's what intellectually honest people do.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
