RE: False perceptions about Atheism and Agnosticism
June 6, 2013 at 8:19 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2013 at 8:56 pm by Gilgamesh.)
Theism is "I believe in a god" yeah?
The prefix 'a' means 'not' or 'without'
Thus, semantically speaking, atheism means "I don't believe in a god" but the semantics behind it are irrelevant since it still carries the same meaning today.
Wait...
Wait again, still doesn't matter. Pulled up the origin of the word and the meanings it carried, originally:
1. without gods
2. denying or disdaining the gods (especially officially sanctioned gods)
3. generally: godless, secular
4. abandoned by the gods
So I'll just call myself the 'godless type' of atheist if the definition is ever brought into question and I'll be completely in the right.
But kudos to statler for destroying fallacious arguments left and right in here. When faced with an argument they can't beat on its own merits; they resort to grasping at straws.
"This is the definition of atheism. Stop getting it wrong, theist's!"
Statler: "Actually, this is the definition"
"Oh but it doesn't matter what the definition is. We still hold our non-belief (as if that's relevant.) Quit whining about it (because when you can't beat your opponent, they're whining.)"
How fast the importance of definitions goes out the window when its not in your favor =/
Atheists, I am disappoint.
The prefix 'a' means 'not' or 'without'
Thus, semantically speaking, atheism means "I don't believe in a god" but the semantics behind it are irrelevant since it still carries the same meaning today.
Wait...
Quote:Nope, the “a” does not modify “ism” as you seem to have asserted, it modifies “the”, so the word literally means a belief in no God. That’s still a belief, not a lack of belief.Can you show this to be true?
Wait again, still doesn't matter. Pulled up the origin of the word and the meanings it carried, originally:
1. without gods
2. denying or disdaining the gods (especially officially sanctioned gods)
3. generally: godless, secular
4. abandoned by the gods
So I'll just call myself the 'godless type' of atheist if the definition is ever brought into question and I'll be completely in the right.
But kudos to statler for destroying fallacious arguments left and right in here. When faced with an argument they can't beat on its own merits; they resort to grasping at straws.
"This is the definition of atheism. Stop getting it wrong, theist's!"
Statler: "Actually, this is the definition"
"Oh but it doesn't matter what the definition is. We still hold our non-belief (as if that's relevant.) Quit whining about it (because when you can't beat your opponent, they're whining.)"
How fast the importance of definitions goes out the window when its not in your favor =/
Atheists, I am disappoint.
