(April 10, 2014 at 8:14 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 10, 2014 at 7:04 am)tor Wrote: Yes you can.
Do you believe in god? Yes. Theist. No. Atheist.
The problem with that is, you will get endless objections, as is evident here on AF, with atheists demanding that they have no beliefs. That atheism is to theism as off is a TV channel.. etc ad infinitum.
The vast majority of atheist rial at the notion that they believe anything, let alone that God doesn't exist. No doubt you have yet to consider the consequences of that stance.
The "No" in that answer pertains to the question being asked: "do you believe in god?", the answer, in its complete form would be "no, I do not believe in god".
But, for the question to be properly formed so as to include any god, it should be "Do you believe in the existence of any god?" A "no" answer will still yield, "no, I do not believe in the existence of any god".
There is another form of belief related to this question... which I think is what you were aiming at... but the question would be another... "do you believe that no god exists?"
