(December 29, 2014 at 8:23 pm)Lambert Wrote:(December 27, 2014 at 7:52 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Which, of course, is nonsense.
The label is irrelevent, I'll grant that much. What the ascriptions to that label mean however is not. I've lacked any sort of belief or indeed concept of a 'God' since day 1 of my existence. I've always been an atheist; I've never once been a theist. Every single God concept that's been proposed to me has been found wanting and has not passed my minimum standard of evidence which I require to make me believe there might be something to it.
Do you understand this?
Ok sure, I have never been a theist either and never knew that word until I came to Canada. I was never asked to believe anything about God so how can I be either theist or atheist?
We were told stories, I suppose, but were never asked to believe any of that.
You believe in [a version of] a god, correct?
You're a theist.
What you were told or what you were told to believe is irreverent. It's got nothing to do with what you've been told, but what you [don't] believe.
It's really that simple and I'm not sure why you're making it more complex than it needs to be?
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