I can see what edward is saying about atheistic faith. If someone tells me theres an ice cream truck coming around the corner I can simply have faith that he is telling the truth and go get my change or I can peek around the corner to see if theres a truck. No gods involved but, it's me putting faith in something.
However even as an atheist I do not agree with all of the points above, nor do I have knowledge enough in most of them to say either way.
As far as asking what is it I don't beleive in, the list is infinite. God is just a word, used by many people with diferent definitions. I try not to define it myself, let the people who beleive in their god define their beleifs and then I'll say whether or not I accept those beleifs.
If you must have an answer, the christian god, the god of the jews and Allah I do not beleive in. I do not see anything that would cause me to think there is a personal god of any kind.
If you would suggest there could be a god that does not interact with us personally, he created the universe and let it run it's course, observing. Sure, there totally could be but, in that case it doesn't affect me. Someday maybe scientific study will reveal this god, and it will be very interesting to learn about it but, if we never discovered this god we could not be affected any less.
In the end it comes down to the burden of proof. I'm not claiming anything, I'm hearing other tell me theres a man in the sky watching me pee and I'm saying 'prove it'.
I will concede that I am more militaristic about it than needed, I see people living their lives for something that from my view does not exist. I see life as a very wonderful thing and it's almost painful to see a life squandered. It's their choice to do what they want with their life but, I also never claimed that I was being fair in encouraging people to grow towards my way of thinking.
However even as an atheist I do not agree with all of the points above, nor do I have knowledge enough in most of them to say either way.
As far as asking what is it I don't beleive in, the list is infinite. God is just a word, used by many people with diferent definitions. I try not to define it myself, let the people who beleive in their god define their beleifs and then I'll say whether or not I accept those beleifs.
If you must have an answer, the christian god, the god of the jews and Allah I do not beleive in. I do not see anything that would cause me to think there is a personal god of any kind.
If you would suggest there could be a god that does not interact with us personally, he created the universe and let it run it's course, observing. Sure, there totally could be but, in that case it doesn't affect me. Someday maybe scientific study will reveal this god, and it will be very interesting to learn about it but, if we never discovered this god we could not be affected any less.
In the end it comes down to the burden of proof. I'm not claiming anything, I'm hearing other tell me theres a man in the sky watching me pee and I'm saying 'prove it'.
I will concede that I am more militaristic about it than needed, I see people living their lives for something that from my view does not exist. I see life as a very wonderful thing and it's almost painful to see a life squandered. It's their choice to do what they want with their life but, I also never claimed that I was being fair in encouraging people to grow towards my way of thinking.
