In article ,
Kurt Ullman wrote:

In article ,
Free Lunch wrote:

On Fri, 24 May 2013 12:46:29 -0400, Kurt Ullman

No, that is not what atheism is. Atheism is the lack of belief in any
gods.
Yeah, you don't believe in gods. A lack of belief, by definition, is
not believing.

Exactly.

What it is not is a belief that no god exists.


Let's go back to the valid definition of atheism, the lack of belief in
any gods. Where does that require evidence that any particular god does
not exist?

How does it do anything but? YOu are saying there are no gods.

Not true.


Lack of gods mean they don't exist or there would be a god or two
floating around. I did not say anything about a particular god (thus the
lower case "g" to keep my high school English teachers happy-grin).
Until you can prove that there are no gods to believe, atheism is just
the mirror image of theism (with their own brand of fundamentalism).

But the vast majority of us DO NOT believe that god doesn't exist.

What it is is the lack of a reason TO believe.

Can you answer the question nobody else has been able to answer: WHY
should we believe that any god exists?

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JD

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