(July 16, 2015 at 7:24 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: About.com? Right, well you can use all of the user-generated websites you want to try and support your position, I'll stick to the actual philosophical standards.
Just what might "actual philosophical standards" be? Words mean what people use them to mean. Atheism among most atheists today means a lack of belief in a god or gods. It is a single position on a single issue, not a philosophy. Therefore, I don't give a rat's ass what the editors of a philosophers' dictionary think it means.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.