(January 19, 2010 at 10:27 am)Eilonnwy Wrote:(January 19, 2010 at 8:35 am)FaithvsFact Wrote: My interest is from strong atheists who make that positive assertion as defined by this forum. I am not focusing on any other kind of atheist for the purposes of this scope.
I am not sure if you are a strong atheist or not, but I would like to hear from strong atheists about their answers to my original two questions.
Well, that first depends on how you define strong atheists, as I've seen it defined a couple different ways.
I consider myself a strong atheist insofar as I believe there are no personal Gods as described in the many religions of the world, and I have based those reasons on science and evidence because those Gods each have specific claims and attributes that can be tested for. I will, however, not make the claim that there absolutely is no God at all, it's impossible to know.
I don't think you are a strong atheist according to the definition of a strong atheist which I have come across which is from strongatheism.net:
"Strong Atheism is the proposition that we should not suspend judgment about the non-existence of a god or gods. More extensively, it is a positive position against theistic values, semantics and anti-materialism, a rational inquiry in the nature of religious thought, a new way of thinking about religious and spiritual issues."
When you say "I will, however, not make the claim that there absolutely is no God at all, it's impossible to know" you are "suspending non-judgement".
Thus, you are not the target of my post. My scope is for the bona-fide strong atheist. Are you all agnostic atheists or apatheists? I wonder if there are any genuine strong atheists on this forum?
I will keep pressing on.