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Poll: Which statement describes most accurately your understanding of the label atheism?
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The doctrine of belief that there is no god
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0 0%
The disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings
65.71%
46 65.71%
Other (please explain)
34.29%
24 34.29%
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Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
RE: Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
I assume you mean, "if you are an atheist do you have any beliefs regarding gods or a god?"

I think my response would be: nothing I've heard of gods has amounted to a reason for me to do or not do anything whatsoever. So I at least have no active belief in gods, for or against. If pressed to say if I think they literally exist apart from people's minds I would say no, I don't believe so. But I wouldn't volunteer the assertion "gods do not exist" because I think there is definitely something which has given rise to that popular belief. So there is a sense in which gods do exist. It just isn't the same sense in which molecules and horses and electricity and colors and gravity and emotions exist. If gods exist, their existence is contingent upon our own.
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RE: Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist? - by Whateverist - April 23, 2014 at 9:13 pm

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