(October 3, 2013 at 5:56 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(October 3, 2013 at 5:31 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: Using your own example, the atheist position would look like "Well, I don't see enough proof that you're a movie star. Therefore you're not a movie star."
No, you're totally misrepresenting what atheism is about. The atheist position would be "I don't see enough proof you're a movie star, so I don't believe that you are who you say you are."
You keep falling into this illogical conclusion that an atheist is only an atheist if they claim that no gods can or ever will exist. If you can't understand that atheism is only being without belief in a god, then you're either being willfully ignorant, unable to understand basic concepts, or just being stubborn on purpose.
(October 3, 2013 at 5:39 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: Who cares what you believe?
OK, so I vote for willful ignorance mixed with being stubborn on purpose. As such, since you're not willing to learn what atheism really is, there's no more reason to talk to you.
What you're describing sounds like agnosticism, not atheism.
You may not believe THAT a deity of some sort exists. But you're fully open to the possibility that a deity could exist. That it could be of one particular religion, and that any one of these religions could be true. That your own decision to be an atheist could be a stupid one.
In principle, what you're calling atheism entails all of the above possibilities.
And don't you even try to tell me the possibilities are unlikely. You haven't done the math on them.
