(March 12, 2012 at 2:09 pm)Some guy Wrote: Well then, my beliefs are that there is a God and he (he as in that God is described as Lord and that is a male description, although God is not restricted by human constraints) is the biblical God. I believe that God created the universe and didn't use evolution, Jesus died on a cross etcetera. However as atheism is a disbelief in God (which is in technicality an anti belief or something) I think it is a belief system at least, not a religion as religion implies a greater force (God maybe) although I am very open to see why I may (hopefully not) be wrong and why atheism is something else. Do you think it is a view on the world or a core concept of which you base your morals or simply just what you think?
Welcome, please don't be offended if we argue against these points, its discussion and its not personal.
Very curious about lack of evolution. Do you subscribe to a young earth? or old earth minus evolution?
Again thou, you may think its a belief system, but that isn't atheism. A religious viewpoint comes with constraints on what you believe. Atheism simply says we do not believe in a supreme being, it alludes to no specific moral belief, which is the domain of moral philosophy.
For instance, my beliefs match closely with secular humanism, but that is not an expression of my atheism, but my personal ideals.
The only thing you are stating is that belief is based upon probability, in which case you can call most of us agnostic atheists, in that we don't claim to prove the non-existence of god, merely it as highly improbable (Dawkins et al are all agnostic atheists also, which seems to confuse people and claimed recently he softened his views, which was retarded). A hard atheist may assert no God, but to many atheists this is an unproven assertion the same as theism. That is where your confusion may lie.
I am also an agnostic afaeist as well, I don't assert the non-existence of faeries, but I feel their existence is highly improbable.
