RE: Is this the right way to think about Atheism?
March 23, 2014 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2014 at 4:53 pm by SteelCurtain.)
At its simplest, atheism just means a lack of belief in a god. Period. None of the other stuff that people generally attach to the word is really relevant.
Technically, since there really is no way to prove or disprove the existence of a god(s), the only purely rational stance an atheist can take is agnostic atheist. Where we acknowledge that one cannot know, but we make a statement of belief (or lack thereof.)
Technically, since there really is no way to prove or disprove the existence of a god(s), the only purely rational stance an atheist can take is agnostic atheist. Where we acknowledge that one cannot know, but we make a statement of belief (or lack thereof.)
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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