(October 2, 2013 at 3:52 pm)Rational AKD Wrote:(October 2, 2013 at 3:31 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Again you're not getting that ATHEISM DOES NOT CONSIST OF THE CLAIM THAT THERE ABSOLUTELY ARE NO GODS ANYWHERE. Atheism is simply not believing in any gods, period. I don't know why you and other Christians on this forum can't seem to understand that.
maybe because of these sources that prove you wrong.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atheist
Quote:‘Atheism’ means the negation of theism, the denial of the existence of God.http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/
Quote:[atheism] The term atheism comes from the Greek word atheos, meaning godless. Atheos is derived from a, meaning "without," and theos, meaning "deityhttp://www.pluralism.org/resources/tradi...theism.php
and many others. I don't feel like creating an exhaustive list just so you can ignore it.
Stop it. This is a set up on your part to ignore the fact we don't give your pet deity claim any more weight than any other pet deity claim you don't believe in yourself.
Your personal flavor of Kool Aid is not special to us. Kool Aid is always Kool Aid and invisible sky daddies are fictional human concocted superstitions reflecting the respective cultures the fans live in.
Not that you will, but instead of debating atheists, debate a Muslim or Jew or Hindu, then maybe you can pull your head out of your ass and see what we see.