(February 15, 2014 at 5:49 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: That being said, atheism itself is the disbelief in gods. It is possible to have atheists that do believe in other supernatural claims.
Last year in a philosophy class I was taking, the professor asked the class who believed in various things such as gods, ghosts, maybe some pseudosciences (I can't remember why he asked, but I'm pretty sure it was relevant to the topic). Only two people (myself included) raised their hand when the class was asked who didn't believe in god. A few questions later, the other atheist admitted to believing in ghosts, to which my professor expressed disappointment in her lack of skepticism. So, yeah, atheists can believe in the supernatural, though it is uncommon.
On that note, said (theistic) professor openly mocked the fact that almost a third of the class admitted to believing in ghosts, until he realized that they were dead serious...and he promptly put his foot in his mouth, clearly bothered by what he had just learned.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
