(July 13, 2014 at 12:31 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 13, 2014 at 12:16 am)Stimbo Wrote: Except atheism isn't a faith or a philosophy.
Okay. Whatever it is, it still applies.
No it doesn't, in the context you want to use. The lack of theism can't drive a person's actions in the way you're trying to assert, any more than neutral gear can't drive a car.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'