RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist?
July 26, 2010 at 9:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2010 at 9:16 pm by DiRNiS.)
While I lack belief in any gods, I don't really feel comfortable labelling myself an "atheist" as it implies that theism is the default position. Nobody is born believing in a deity until they learn about the concept of one.
Since we have all learned or heard of the concept of a god and do not believe in one due to lack of evidence or whatever reason, we are labelled "atheists".
However, most people have heard the concept of unicorns or Santa Claus and while they do not believe such concepts are real, nobody is calling them "a-unicornists" or "a-santaclausists" are they? So why should it be different with a god?
Since we have all learned or heard of the concept of a god and do not believe in one due to lack of evidence or whatever reason, we are labelled "atheists".
However, most people have heard the concept of unicorns or Santa Claus and while they do not believe such concepts are real, nobody is calling them "a-unicornists" or "a-santaclausists" are they? So why should it be different with a god?
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
