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Re: What all atheists believe
I appreciate your comments, but I will confine myself to the people who claim or assert "there are no gods."
The people who claim or assert "there are no gods"...are doing "believing"...as in "I believe there is a God."
That is all one can do on the question of, "Are there any gods involved in the Reality of existence.
One can make a guess...and then disguise the fact that it is a guess by calling it a "belief."
That is true. If a person is silly enough to fall into that trap then they deserve what they get.
However it is usually only theists who say atheists believe there is no god. That is because they lack any means to justify their own beliefs and so attempt instead to drag atheists to their level by falsely claiming atheism is a belief.
There is also the problem as i explained to the OP of this thread. Belief for a theist is based on nothing but faith. They then turn this around for atheists by saying a lack of belief is still a belief and like them must be based on faith. This is untrue. Where as a theist belief is based on faith alone an atheists lack of belief is based on the good reason that no evidence or good reason has ever been produced for a god.
I can quite easily say that there is no god because lacking evidence or good reason means that this god is only a work of fiction.
I appreciate your comments, but I will confine myself to the people who claim or assert "there are no gods."
The people who claim or assert "there are no gods"...are doing "believing"...as in "I believe there is a God."
That is all one can do on the question of, "Are there any gods involved in the Reality of existence.
One can make a guess...and then disguise the fact that it is a guess by calling it a "belief."