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Has atheism made you different?
RE: Has atheism made you different?
(April 26, 2013 at 6:31 am)Dawud Wrote: So no one can desire to share thoughts in their awareness of their agnosticism?

No one said that.

(April 26, 2013 at 6:31 am)Dawud Wrote: Or do anything due to their awareness of their agnosticism?

Awareness of one's own agnosticism isn't agnosticism. Being aware of it may have some small effect on behavior, but not as much as the foundation that led one to be an agnostic in the first place. If you think mere awareness of one's own agnosticism could lead to killing people in the name of agnosticism, you'll need to show your work. If you don't think that, you'll need to elaborate on why awareness of agnosticism wouldn't but awareness of atheism could.

(April 26, 2013 at 6:31 am)Dawud Wrote: Plenty of people agree with me Rhythm.

That doesn't make you right, it just means a lot of people are in the same boat as you when it comes to misunderstanding certain terms.

(April 26, 2013 at 6:31 am)Dawud Wrote: An awareness or knowledge of an agnostic identity or an atheist identity can motivate people

Motivate them to what?

(April 26, 2013 at 6:31 am)Dawud Wrote: and it is something that they can have knowledge of and thoughts on... These knowledge and thoughts (alongside others) can cause someone to do something because they know they are atheist...

Atheism isn't knowledge and thoughts. It's not believing God is real.

(April 26, 2013 at 6:31 am)Dawud Wrote: The awareness of the atheist identity was important above... Alongside other things too but take away the awareness of the atheist identity and it is easy to see how this could make someone different.... And and its plain to see that this knowledge of an atheist identity can motivate...

No one is just an atheist. No one's identity is primarily composed of atheism. Identifying as an atheist is only non-trivial because of the widespread prejudice against doing so; and you'll find that even being open about being an atheist isn't based on atheism.

(April 26, 2013 at 6:31 am)Dawud Wrote: * add the knowledge back to the person that they are atheist and it is plain to see that knowledge of an atheist identity is clearly knowledge that can affect behavior.

Take away someone's knowledge that they're an atheist and leave everything else and they'll still be an atheist, they just won't know it. But as soon as the term is explained to them, they'll realize that it applies to them. You seem to have abandoned the tack of asserting that atheism is a motivator, and gone to asserting the awareness of one's own atheism can affect behavior. That's clearly a step in the right direction, awareness of what descriptors apply to one can have a trivial effect on behavior. One might exclaim 'Aha, I'm an atheist!', for instance, and possibly begin wondering about the ramifications of that. You can't get from 'Aha, I'm an atheist!' to 'so, I should kill the believers!' without additional ingredients.
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RE: Has atheism made you different?
No, its such a small part of my life. The only reason I can think of for atheism being important in someones life is when you want to make a difference, kind of like Richard Dawkins, atheism is a big part of his life because it needs to be. He campagins against the teachings of religion because he sees it as a form of childhood indoctrination and child abuse. He didn't set out to be an atheist. Like with all atheists, it is a side effect of education and consciousness raising where the logical and rational part of your brain overpowers the irrational part. You can look anywhere and find the correlational links between education and religion. What you will find is that generally, the more educated a person is, the less likely they are to be religious. Of course, correlation does not imply causation so there may be other factors involved.
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