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Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists'
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RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists'
(July 23, 2014 at 3:35 pm)Blackout Wrote: That's not a rule, that's just atheism per se, it's like saying the heart beating is a condition to be alive. If there is no belief, you're an atheist, even if you dislike it. The difference is the lack of belief in gods can be questioned every time, I could search for god and start believing, there is no punishment for it in my optic, therefore fundamentalism doesn't exist. Fundamentalism would be if I believed no gods exist and continued to do so despite evidence to prove the supernatural being presented.

I don't consider lack of belief in gods as a rule to atheism, it's not a rule, atheism doesn't have any rules or dogmas, the lack of belief is what constitutes atheism. Not to mention not all atheists lack belief in gods, some atheists believe no gods exist (gnostic atheists), there goes your single rule

Many fallacies here. You did not chose to have your heart beat but you chose to be an atheist. The same way you chose to be a Christian although many are brainwashed into it.

The lack of beliefs in god is not really a rule but I just used that word. It is indeed the main and only principle to be an atheist. People of religious backgrounds have all sorts of principles they must live by. Atheism by no means has dogma and there can be no such thing as fundamentalist atheism because by default it is fundamentalist from the get go.

Atheism has 1 premise and if you don't agree to that premise(no gods) then you can't be an atheist. You cannot bend or twist it into something it is no as it only makes one statement. This is why you have agnostic, gnostic, new or pragmatic atheism. I myself am an igtheist.

(July 23, 2014 at 3:36 pm)Losty Wrote: Losty-chan hehe I'm not Japanese. :p

I don't think not believing in gods is a rule...not for me. My only rule is that I don't believe in anything unless I believe in it, because I believe in it.
If that counts as a dogma then I guess I'm a fundamentalist Losty....because I just do what I feel like doing and believe what I believe. Usually my beliefs are based on evidence, but always they're based on whatever I actually believe at the time. Smile

Not Japanese? Well you are now! Want some catnip Losty-chan? I here that it is popular amongst you nekomimi types.

Rule is a bad word so I would rather use premise or principle in place of it.
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Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Dystopia - July 22, 2014 at 7:54 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Chad32 - July 22, 2014 at 8:42 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by vorlon13 - July 22, 2014 at 11:45 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by TaraJo - July 23, 2014 at 12:03 am
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by ShaMan - July 23, 2014 at 11:35 am
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by ShaMan - July 23, 2014 at 1:23 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Losty - July 23, 2014 at 11:53 am
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Losty - July 23, 2014 at 3:12 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Rabb Allah - July 23, 2014 at 4:10 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Losty - July 23, 2014 at 4:28 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Losty - July 23, 2014 at 3:36 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Losty - July 23, 2014 at 2:17 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by ShaMan - July 23, 2014 at 2:51 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Zidneya - July 24, 2014 at 12:19 am
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Dystopia - July 23, 2014 at 10:32 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Losty - July 24, 2014 at 12:16 am
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Dystopia - July 25, 2014 at 12:15 pm
RE: Stop calling atheists 'fundamentalists' - by Losty - July 25, 2014 at 12:37 pm

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