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Well, yes. You are born without a belief in God. It is only through your encounters with fellow humans that you may be imbued with a belief in a god. I wasn't born believing you couldn't divide by zero. I didn't even know what zero was. Btw, vix, welcome. Why not post an intro in the intro section to tell us more about you?
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 (August 7, 2015 at 11:33 pm)vixene Wrote: How can someone be a lifelong atheist? You're not born an atheist are you? .tsiehta nrob si enoyrevE !ekiM emocleW
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
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August 7, 2015 at 11:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2015 at 11:43 pm by vixene.)
(August 7, 2015 at 11:39 pm)c172 Wrote: Well, yes. You are born without a belief in God. It is only through your encounters with fellow humans that you may be imbued with a belief in a god. I wasn't born believing you couldn't divide by zero. I didn't even know what zero was. Btw, vix, welcome. Why not post an intro in the intro section to tell us more about you?I'm not sure what forum that is and most importantly what to say. Where would that be? (August 7, 2015 at 11:42 pm)JuliaL Wrote:That's a little creepy(August 7, 2015 at 11:33 pm)vixene Wrote: How can someone be a lifelong atheist? You're not born an atheist are you?
https://atheistforums.org/forum-11.html is the intro forum. Take a look at a few of the threads and make your own when you feel like it.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 (August 7, 2015 at 11:33 pm)vixene Wrote: How can someone be a lifelong atheist? You're not born an atheist are you? There are two common senses of the word "atheist" so that in one sense you are perfectly correct and in another you are not. The two senses can be specified in terms of weak atheism and strong atheism. They are discussed in detail at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_a...ve_atheism Basically, one sense of the term "atheism" is the absence of a belief in a god. That is weak atheism. The other is the belief that there is no god. That is strong atheism. Notice, one is not having a particular belief. It is not itself a belief. You are born a weak atheist, as you are not born with beliefs regarding the existence of god. You are not, though, born a strong atheist, because you are not born with beliefs regarding the existence of god. At this site, people typically (though not always) use the term "atheism" to mean weak atheism. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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August 8, 2015 at 9:11 pm
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(August 7, 2015 at 3:53 pm)MikeXeno Wrote: I have never had Welcome Waffles before. Here's a Thank You Three-Bean Salad! I grew up on 3 bean salad from KFC! I would go and buy that and not buy any chicken! They stopped selling it about 20 years ago though! Can anyone confirm that it is sold by KFC in their country? (must be KFC) I'd like to order a 40 foot container. (Actually better make that a 20 foot container, I got a little excited there for as moment)
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Know God, Know fear.  (August 7, 2015 at 3:07 pm)MikeXeno Wrote: Hello, lifelong atheist here, newly signed up. Gonna lurk for a while and then join into discussions. Cheers! Nice to meet you. Save Save Save 
Welcome, Mike, hope you enjoy the forums.
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Just so no one else gets tripped up, this is an intro thread that is almost 2 years old. He gone.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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