RE: Hello
March 12, 2012 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 3:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The core of atheism is a lack of belief in god. Not only is this the core, it is everything that atheism is, there is nothing else. Your assessment is the product of an us vs them strawman cultivated by religiously minded individuals. It's easier to deal with any given criticism that atheists might make of theism by attempts at group character assassination than it is to handle them directly. By easier, I mean it would seem to be otherwise impossible.
I'd like to see belief in god completely dissappear, but this isn't because I'm an atheist, nor does it have much to do with evolution of rational thought (or reason, or evolution). Nor would I "remove" religion. That's something people will have to handle themselves, individually. These sorts of statements are actually very carefully worded to make atheism sound about ten times more sinister than it is. Whats so scary about "I do not believe"?
I'd like to see belief in god completely dissappear, but this isn't because I'm an atheist, nor does it have much to do with evolution of rational thought (or reason, or evolution). Nor would I "remove" religion. That's something people will have to handle themselves, individually. These sorts of statements are actually very carefully worded to make atheism sound about ten times more sinister than it is. Whats so scary about "I do not believe"?
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