RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 7, 2015 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2015 at 1:36 pm by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
Ok,i took a minute,thought about it and now i know why you're wrong.
Think about it like this:
Theism is like a huge building.
God is the base of this building.
Religion is one of the part of this building.
Saying Atheism is disbelieving God would imply nothing about the rest of the building - which is enough to say that the definition that Atheism is disbelieving in God is wrong.
Whereas,if you say that Atheism is disbelieving in Theism would erase the whole building out of the question - this is obviously the right definition.
Or you can think about it like this.
God is only one of the subsets of Theism. (Theism =/= God)
Religion is another subset of theism.
Christianity,Hinduism etc are further subsets of religion.
Saying Atheism is disbelieving in god would only erase 1 subset of Theism - What about the other subsets?The definition specifies nothing about the other subsets.
Whereas looking at Atheism as Atheism is disbelieving in Theism would imply that Atheism disbelieves in the whole set of Theism.
@Whateverist, it took me a minute but now i get it gahahaha n1
Think about it like this:
Theism is like a huge building.
God is the base of this building.
Religion is one of the part of this building.
Saying Atheism is disbelieving God would imply nothing about the rest of the building - which is enough to say that the definition that Atheism is disbelieving in God is wrong.
Whereas,if you say that Atheism is disbelieving in Theism would erase the whole building out of the question - this is obviously the right definition.
Or you can think about it like this.
God is only one of the subsets of Theism. (Theism =/= God)
Religion is another subset of theism.
Christianity,Hinduism etc are further subsets of religion.
Saying Atheism is disbelieving in god would only erase 1 subset of Theism - What about the other subsets?The definition specifies nothing about the other subsets.
Whereas looking at Atheism as Atheism is disbelieving in Theism would imply that Atheism disbelieves in the whole set of Theism.
@Whateverist, it took me a minute but now i get it gahahaha n1