(March 15, 2014 at 10:08 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: atheism requires a choice to believe or not. Religious people choose to believe despite no evidence. (either way)
Atheism require no choice, being the default (natural) state. If you hadn't thought about the question/had no knowledge, then you'd be an atheist. The same as if you rejected the idea of a god or actively believed against.
Believers sometimes believe minus evidence, and sometimes with. They can never have empirical evidence, but they can have knowledge that convinces them to believe... otherwise they couldn't believe. Just because you don't know what they know, doesn't mean that oranges are the only fruit. ie - yours isn't the only correct answer.
