(June 5, 2015 at 12:00 pm)robvalue Wrote: Sure, I totally get what you're saying. But I would say those are your consequences of atheism, where you choose to take it. The fact that you are simply "an atheist" is just a matter of acknowledging the state of mind. Would you agree? Each person might need faith for whatever else they decide to do. But that's for those things, not atheism specifically.
Yes, atheism just makes it clear that judgement in all those areas requires self-reliance, and that takes faith.
Atheism itself requires no faith, and neither do I have any faith in atheism.
