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Re: Is atheism a religion
Aren't you splitting hairs now? Here's what you said...
So most atheists don't believe that no god exists.... I'm assuming your double-negative was just bad grammar and what you meant to say was "most atheists do believe in the possibility of a god existing, they just don't believe in religious claims due to the lack of evidence."
Stop me here if I'm wrong. I may just have misunderstood you.
However, that seems like a statement that would suggest that since God's existence is a possibility, and since it's simply down to the evidence (which only adds to our uncertainty), you're really describing agnostics and not atheists.
Atheism is a belief set, I would argue. It's the proactive belief that no god exists.
Nope.
Agnosticism is a stance about knowledge and what is knowable. Atheism is practical philosophy. It has nothing to do with what can or cannot be known.
Aren't you splitting hairs now? Here's what you said...
Most atheists don't believe that no god exists.
They simply don't believe claims made by the religious, because there's no evidence for them.
So most atheists don't believe that no god exists.... I'm assuming your double-negative was just bad grammar and what you meant to say was "most atheists do believe in the possibility of a god existing, they just don't believe in religious claims due to the lack of evidence."
Stop me here if I'm wrong. I may just have misunderstood you.
However, that seems like a statement that would suggest that since God's existence is a possibility, and since it's simply down to the evidence (which only adds to our uncertainty), you're really describing agnostics and not atheists.
Atheism is a belief set, I would argue. It's the proactive belief that no god exists.