RE: Why Carl Sagan rejected atheism
October 29, 2013 at 8:15 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2013 at 8:16 am by Ben Davis.)
(October 29, 2013 at 8:05 am)ManMachine Wrote: Atheism is not a lack of belief nor a denial. Both of these require the premise that the existence of a deity is the norm from which we deviate. Atheism is an assertion that deities do not exist, which is a rejection of the premise entirely.
No, the claim that a deity/ies does/do not exist is 'antitheism': the opposition of theism (the claim that a deity/ies exist).
'Atheism' is most strictly and accurately 'the absence of theism'.
Sum ergo sum