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Author Topic:   The war of atheism
Perdition
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Message 35 of 526 (511585)
06-10-2009 2:24 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by greentwiga
06-10-2009 2:17 PM


Re: Hi!
Atheism is not a religion? You have a belief concerning God. Do you have more evidence on His non-existence than I have on His existence? Without proof, it is a belief.
We have a LACK of belief concerning God. Religion makes a positive statement, "I believe X." Atheism does not, "I have no reason to believe X, Y or Z." They are the exact opposite, as shown by the "a" at the beginning of the word. Something that is amoral isn't professing a morality, because that is the exact opposite of what amoral means.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves; people claiming that atheism is a religion when it is the exact opposite of a religion. Even worse is claiming that science is a religion, but I hope we need not get into that one.
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Perdition
Member (Idle past 3259 days)
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From: Wisconsin
Joined: 05-15-2003


Message 109 of 526 (512255)
06-15-2009 3:17 PM
Reply to: Message 93 by Hyroglyphx
06-12-2009 10:53 PM


Re: Hi!
Then how would they have come to any belief in the first place without some sort of foundation?
I'm an example:
I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist. Why don't I believe in God?
There has been absolutely no evidence for a god, a fairy, a genie, magical elves, etc and so I dismiss them until such evidence is provided.
I don't believe it is possible to prove that God doesn't exist and I hold to the fact that it is possible a god exists, and should enough evidence come forth to convince me, then I will change my mind. I'm agnostic.
I don't claim enough knowledge to "know" that there is no god because knowledge cannot prove a negative of that type. I do claim not to believe. How would you define me?
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