RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist?
July 30, 2010 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2010 at 5:13 pm by Scented Nectar.)
(July 30, 2010 at 3:09 pm)Spencer Wrote: Lets pretend for a moment that religion never existed, no one ever "believed" in a god or gods, never mentioned it or brought it up, didn't use them to explain the unknown none of that, everyone had complete understand of evolution and exactly how the earth and universe operated and had perfectly logical explanations for everything.Yes, but only weak/negative/soft/implicit/passive/agnostic atheism. That's the lack of belief type which does not actively state there is no god, but only has a lack of belief. There would definitely need to be a concept of god though, before anyone could be a strong/positive/hard/explicit/active/gnostic atheist.
Would atheism exist?
Weak = lack of belief only, without it mattering whether or not the concept exists yet.
Strong = active disbelief, and the god concept needs to exist first in order to reject it.
Both are considered atheism.
I'm really shitty at giving kudos and rep. That's because I would be inconsistent in remembering to do them, and also I don't really want it to show if any favouritism is happening. Even worse would be inconsistencies causing false favouritisms to show. So, fuck it. Just assume that I've given you some good rep and a number of kudos, and everyone should be happy...
