RE: Strong Atheism starts from faith
January 19, 2010 at 5:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2010 at 5:30 pm by Purple Rabbit.)
(January 19, 2010 at 11:02 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.
(January 19, 2010 at 8:35 am)FaithvsFact Wrote: 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.
At last I've found you! You're a Strong Label Chaser.
According to my definition, one that I will not be surprised about to find it somewhere on the internet, a Strong Label Chaser (SLC) is a person who makes a strong positive claim about the intrinsic value of a label to put on a person no matter what subtleties of interpretation and definition are around.
Glad to have met. Bye!
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0