[split] Hello everyone

[dyresand]

Atheism has nothing to do with any fear of religion or religious practices. Atheists on the other hand can be motivated by any manner of factors. I don't get why you're making this so difficult.

Well you know, I do not even know what theism is if that makes the atheist position possible for you. A theists believes in God or gods, let's say. If the concept God is not prior by nature to me how would I know what God is and what the very word God means if I cannot identify with it. Would my first question not be: "you believe in what?" unless the not-visible concept God is already prior to me by nature right from the start?

This would be similar to the sound of galloping horse. If I have never heard this sound before and when I hear this sound for the first time I go to window to see I will soon know what this sound is all about.

Once this this connection is made, how can you deny me telling you "there goes that horse again" the next time I hear that same sound again?

This then is why I call atheists impoverished believers opposite to which mystics are enriched believers, and I write this only to show that belief does have its own opposite in doubt that sets knowledge apart as an end in itself.

Theism Lambert is the acknowledgement of god. You acknowledge god you pray to god, you worship god, you love god, you are a theist.

Atheist is the opposite we just don't believe there is a god and there is lack of evidence for a god.

you are a theist.