The Sects of Atheism

[GaryAnderson]

This is a group or community where you share ideas which align with your “way of life” so you as a group represent these ideas.

Since you are new, so I'm cutting you some slack. You just joined so it seems a bit presumptious to make general statements about a discussion forum you just joined. The only thing AF represents is Tib's intent to create and maintain a place for open discussion around, but not limited to, various aspects of atheism. The topics are wide-ranging and vary greatly in tone.

This may be somewhat true and I see that you have many sections here in the forum ranging from political, casual or humor but the overall tone is that this is an atheist site with presumably more atheist members.

This guy:
Don't know how to tell you this, but, the afterlife is pay to play.

Thank you very much, have a nice day.

GaryAnderson:
I don’t understand your answer.

That's because you don't want to understand!

Are you mad at understanding?

Show me on the doll where understanding hurt you.

I literally don’t understand this.

The correct answer for the dictionary definition of an atheist is : “I don’t know” regarding the existence of the afterlife and souls.

Assertion only.

Well think about it. If the dictionary definition of atheism is “lack of belief in Gods” then you shouldn’t have an answer on the existence of souls and afterlife and you didn’t.

Why are you so upset of words on a screen? How do you deal with opposing views in real life? Do you fight or do you take shelter?

It's not the words on the screen that bother us.

It is your lack of intellectual integrity and honesty.

We are willing, and enjoy the interchange with intellectually honest interlocutors. You are quickly proving yourself not to be one.

But this is true for your side because based on some quick browsing I don’t see any good-faith or honest discussions regarding God or religion here which is your “mortal enemy”
Which is why is better to leave assumptions out the door and just try to focus on one thing for now. Like your beliefs or lack thereof and your thoughts on the afterlife and souls.

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Assertion only.

I would dearly love to see a citation for that dictionary definition.

Boru

Do a quick google search man, it says : “ disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.”

The correct answer for the dictionary definition of an atheist is : “I don’t know” regarding the existence of the afterlife and souls. A few of you have said that, in different words. 

This is not the correct answer.

There are more than several sects of Buddhism, that are atheistic, in that they do not believe in the existence of gods, yet they have plenty of beliefs in soulds and the afterlife.

Oh, and by the way, you do know that dictionaries do not define words in absolute terms. They define word usage.

It is the correct answer in terms of one sect which is Atheists. This sect is allowed to say “I don’t know” to existential god-linked questions and their position/definition doesn’t allow for anything else. Another sect like Agnostic Atheists can philosophize at least because their definition allows that.
There’s also the Meat Machine sect which are basically HARD on denying anything spiritual. These folks could also be described as Materialists.