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Old 09-06-2003, 11:07 PM   #68 (permalink)
papermachesatan
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Originally posted by motdakasha
Atheism is the active belief that there is no God(s).
You're just pulling some entries out of the dictionary without really understanding the terms that are identifying athiesm.

Your errors:
1. You think having a belief or belief system must make it some form of religious system. I believe that every man naturally must have a nose. These beliefs come from multiple observations. Is this system of beliefs a religious system? Religion deals with the supernatural(dieties, etc.), the spirtual, etc.

2. Re-read the definition. "a disbelief in the existence of deity", "Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods."
Athiesm's litteral meaning is non-theism. Athieism is simply the refusal to acknowledge the existance of such.



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To be without religion/belief is a wholly different thing. I have yet to find out what it's called.
You should first figure out the difference between belief systems and religions.

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If anyone knows, tell me because I don't a) believe there is no god b) believe there is a god
a and b are redudant. You don't believe in God. That doesn't mean that you have to prove that there isn't one. That would be misplacing the burden of proof. Finding proof of the negative is near impossible. The theists are the one's making the claim. They have to justify their claim. An athiest simply refuses to believe the claim. You don't have to have a belief system in order to counter another one.

There's no specific term describing the belief that there is no pink, invisible, intangiable elephant floating near your head. You just don't believe in it. No fancy greek descriptions neccessary.

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or c) wonder if there is a god.
C describes agnoticism.

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I just don't think about that. And I'm not humanist, either.
Humanism has little to do with the existance of God.

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