(April 21, 2014 at 7:17 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Hey Mr A. You're right I could have worded the poll better.
What do you think the options should have been?
What I was trying to discover by it was to counter what I thought two people in particular were giving me grief about, which was their assertion that most atheists believed that there was no god, rather than what I have experienced to be the vast majority experience, admittedly of vocal atheists, is that they vehemently opposed that view, and claim to: "lack belief in any god". I can quote that from memory as I've seen it so many times.
Over on Dad's old forum there was an atheist guy fighting for the right to state that his was a belief. You wouldn't believe the shit he received.
A very polite reply to a very insulting post, that's graceful of you.
How about 'if you are an atheist, do you have any beliefs?' Yes, No, or Other. My guess is that you would get mostly 'Yes's', but I would be surprised if you didn't get at least a small minority of other answers.
My apologies if you merely forgot exactly what the argument was over. I jumped to the conclusion that it was deliberate.
I agree that most Western atheists would say they lack a belief in God, it's the sort of cautious formulation one expects from rational empiricists.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
