Opinion on this Creed

[Thumpalumpacus]

Nonsense. My atheism is the absence of faith in any deities, your flailing notwithstanding.

Say, while you're patting yourself on the back for using a dictionary of philosophy (and I may as well have written a "dictionary of bullshit"), why don't you look up "knowledge" and "belief", because they're germane to this discussion.

Nice!  Atheism went from a “lack of belief in a god” to a “lack of faith in a god” in the course of one thread!  Well which is it? [/quote]

I suppose you'll need to look up "evacuated-middle fallacy" while you're there, that should be under the "logic" heading. The reason being is that atheism can be either of those things, and rather than hammer a complex human being into one of your overly simplistic pigeonholes, you'd do better to listen to them as they describe their attitude towards your pet deity.

And -- I chose the phrase "lack of faith" very carefully. There are differing connotative shades that separate "belief" and "faith" in their meanings and usage. I think we've found a little more homework you'll need to do before you can make useful contributions to this discussion.

You do realize that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is edited by an atheist right?  Do not kill the messenger.    

That makes this overly simplistic definition even more suspect, insofar as that atheist my well be importing his own personal view of atheism into the dictionary's very limited definition. Maybe a penguin edited it?