(April 18, 2013 at 4:02 am)ManMachine Wrote: As for being 'part of a group', being an atheist is not a social choice for me it's a personal assertion that there is no god(s). As far as I'm concerned there is no 'group' just individuals with a variety of opinions, ideologies and philosophies who agree on one point, that there are no deities.
Your lack of understanding of what atheism is only serves to bolster the suspicions of members here (including myself) that you are simply posing as an atheist. Very few atheists make the claim "there are no deities". Sure, a small fraction of atheists are "strong atheists" and will make the positive claim, but of course that is recognized by most of us as simply a bare assertion.
Further, your disjointed claim that "neo-atheists" embrace Meliorism and somehow "hold all modern science to be inviolable" doesn't help your case much. Neither Meliorism or science have anything to do with disbelieving the deistic claims of others.
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