(January 16, 2014 at 6:19 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:(January 16, 2014 at 3:31 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: What the fuck is the theists' fetish for equating atheism with materialism (and even naturalism, for that matter)? Why do I feel you are parroting what your pastor claims about atheists without ever thinking for yourself or doing your own research?
If you don't believe in God, a higher power, the supernatural/transcendent reality or whatever else you want to call it just the physical universe as it is that we can see and nothing else then what the fuck else are you meant to be than a materialist? You would be the definition of materialism if you reject or don't accept the existence of anything that is beyond the material and the natural world. As a belief it's possible but if it's actually true that's as big a deal as the alternative/s.
I have a belief that it's possible. Many atheists do. So are we all materialists/naturalists/whateverists? (I had to...I just had to do it.) Can you answer that question truthfully, for once?
Bottom line, putting every atheist into the same box is going to rub people the wrong way. You get on here to parrot what you heard on some Xtian say on a Youtube channel; well their woo woo words don't work on us.