Geez, just when I was trying to promote the idea that a Christian doesn't have to be a dick about his beliefs you show up and start telling everyone what they believe and what that really means. What would we do without you?
I'm changing my number one requirement for a cool Christian to simple "humility". We're just all just humans here together, each with his own personal perspective and all of us expert users of English. None of us owns the patent on objective reality so whenever someone starts telling everyone else the way it is .. well, eyes will roll. Is this really anyway to treat your cyber neighbors? You say you want a respectful discussion but if that is really true, may I suggest you start over?
Here by the way is the way wikipedia defines atheism so you won't think we're just making it all up.
The underlined part is my emphasis for it describes what I mean when I say I am an atheist, which I am by the way. "A-theism" covers everyone who finds they are "without-theism". Strong atheists will tell you with objective certitude just how wrong and stupid your theist beliefs are while we weak atheist will just stand back and think to ourselves "weird" but we'll defend your right to your weirdness without calling you weird. Is that weird?
I'm changing my number one requirement for a cool Christian to simple "humility". We're just all just humans here together, each with his own personal perspective and all of us expert users of English. None of us owns the patent on objective reality so whenever someone starts telling everyone else the way it is .. well, eyes will roll. Is this really anyway to treat your cyber neighbors? You say you want a respectful discussion but if that is really true, may I suggest you start over?
Here by the way is the way wikipedia defines atheism so you won't think we're just making it all up.
Quote:Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.[1] In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.[2][3] Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist.[3][4] Atheism is contrasted with theism,[5][6] which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists,[6][7] and with agnosticism, which leaves the matter of existence open.[8]
The underlined part is my emphasis for it describes what I mean when I say I am an atheist, which I am by the way. "A-theism" covers everyone who finds they are "without-theism". Strong atheists will tell you with objective certitude just how wrong and stupid your theist beliefs are while we weak atheist will just stand back and think to ourselves "weird" but we'll defend your right to your weirdness without calling you weird. Is that weird?
