(May 8, 2014 at 12:34 am)iThinkImSmart Wrote:(May 8, 2014 at 12:32 am)topher Wrote: Uh, no it doesn't. Atheism is the rejection of all deities, humorous or otherwise.
everyone in the world is an atheist to another god... my famous atheist teachers taught me that richard dawkins as well ....
Simply not true. Theism is the belief in a God or gods. Atheism is the rejection of a belief in God or gods.
You're not an atheist of any kind if you believe in Jesus, but not Allah. You're a theist. It's not a "check 1 box" sort of thing.
I AM an atheist, but that's an old argument that doesn't really go anywhere.
“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark