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Should atheism be redefined as to mean lifeless?
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It appears that atheism is causing you some as to mean mindless?
A: Yes.
It's not living.
That's lifeless.
And you live for yourself, doing good deeds, but just because .
You live in fear.
Your problems because you are too weak.
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I am an agnostic. I believe that ultimate religious knowledge cannot be known by any one human or group of humans in their lifetimes. I personally do not know for certain whether or not a deity (or group of deities) exists. If a sentient being is indeed...
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Agnosticism is probably more consistent....
Now, the idea of "weak atheismI think people sometimes favor atheism because it directly challenges and confronts religious belief.
As atheist but felt that "God doesn't exist" was too strong a claim .
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I don't want to be just a meatstick humanimal with no soul, no spirit and no continuity of existence.
Also, the philosophies of materialism and reductionism that inevitably attach themselves to atheism I have real problems with.
Any suggestions, thoughts...
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Faith is a religious man who neither supports atheism nor believes that atheism should be unnecessarily encouraged or supported by the....
The votes of Americans who are atheists?"
GB: "I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community.
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This is one of those perennial debates. Some of us would define atheism narrowly, as the simple negation of a single proposition: the existence of God. If only theism would give us a single, simple, unambiguous proposition to consider!
I myself have become...
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Atheism has become the popular definition of non-religious Atheism, which can refer to....
Strictly speaking, Atheism just means call Buddhism an Atheistic religion for example.
The discussion off on a wild tangent pretty frequently.
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It's my understanding that theological non-cognitivism (TNC) is the position that God-talk is meaningless. Consequently, on TNC, one cannot truly have literal belief that 'God exists' is true, nor can they say it is false. After all, to claim that...
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What are you atheists in the....
On TNC, no one has theistic belief.
On TNC, no one has theistic belief.
Atheists in the sense of weak/negative atheism.
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Alright, I was having a casual debate with someone on another forum. He thinks atheism is not a lack of belief in God, but rather a belief in the non-existence of God. Me and one other person are trying to tell him that it's semantics, but there is a ...
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I am getting myself this new book ''The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions'' by David Berlinski, which ask the very interesting question of why Scientists think they are capable to prove that god exists or not, because most of modern...
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Of evolution is weak? Hah, in your dream.
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Anyone ever thought of it like this? religion/atheism etc
The thing is we don't know "everything"; we probably don't know1 per cent of everything. Therefore when people present concrete "100 per cent true" arguments against a creator or for a creator...
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Re: Anyone ever thought of it like this? religion/atheism etc
I think your post this? religion/atheism etc
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Re: Anyone ever thought of it like this? religion/atheism etc
It's never really been about chance of being correct.
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There are, roughly speaking, two meanings to the term "atheism":
1) The technical meaning: Someone who is not a theist. In other words, someone who wouldn't consider the claim "I believe that a god exists" to be their own personal view.
This meaning includes...
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Hopefully it would also....
If 3 getting in the way.
In some discussions with "weak" atheists is an atheist/agnostic atheist or "weak atheist" or even a "skeptic" by some.
The specific terms are seldom (if ever) used in general discussions .
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The rise of atheism in America The number of disbelievers is growing, but they remain America's least trusted minority. Why?
How many atheists are there?
It depends on your definition of the term. Only between 1.5 and 4 percent of Americans admit to so...
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I would say that agnostics have a weak belief.
I disagree with this.
There is a BIG difference between the two.
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