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Is atheism a belief system in someway?
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RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway?
May 2, 2014 at 7:53 pm (This post was last modified: May 2, 2014 at 7:53 pm by Napoléon.)
(May 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Sure it is. If you believe God doesn't exist, you're an atheist. It's just that people who would say that don't comprise the majority of atheists.

I believe that there are no fairies.

I do not believe in fairies.


Do these two sentences mean the same thing? I'm confused now, I've always thought atheism was explicitly lack of belief. Applying a belief to this would make calling a-anything impossible. I thought atheism literally meant a(without) theism. I suppose you can believe there are no gods and still be atheist, but I hate that anyone would use that description.

Maybe I'm just hung up on semantics.
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Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Doggey75 - May 2, 2014 at 11:35 am
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Napoléon - May 2, 2014 at 7:53 pm
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Chas - May 6, 2014 at 6:07 am
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Chas - May 6, 2014 at 9:51 am
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Chad32 - May 5, 2014 at 10:12 am
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Leo34 - May 6, 2014 at 11:27 pm
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Chas - May 7, 2014 at 6:14 pm
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Chas - May 8, 2014 at 9:26 am
RE: Is atheism a belief system in someway? - by Tonus - May 13, 2014 at 6:11 am

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