PhillyChief
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3 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Do You Believe in God(s)? · 1 reply · +2 points
For religionists, belief is unmovable. Once you believe, that's it, and nothing can change or destroy such a position. For the non-religionist, belief is temporary, a position held as long as it's viable.
So due to these contrasting views of belief, we atheists most certainly don't believe there are any gods, but if we were to say that, a religionist will hear that we are dogmatic and faith based like them, which leads to bullshit like "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist".
Any apparent unease or waffling by an atheist in light of the question "do you believe in god?" should not then be seen as an attempt to deceive or obfuscate, but rather as an attempt to convey "belief" in a way that won't be misunderstood, and thus exploited by religionists.
3 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Do You Believe in God(s)? · 2 replies · +2 points
3 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Atheist Rocks and Othe... · 0 replies · +2 points
4 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - EXCLUSIVE: Indiana Lib... · 3 replies · +2 points
I would be tempted to sue for big money. Donate the money to a charity, or to really steam them, to the FFRF, ACLU, and others. ;)
5 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - The Proposition 8 Ruli... · 0 replies · +2 points
Gay marriage is an equal rights issue, and that alone makes me support it. I don't need a 'booga-booga, atheists are next' article to get on board.
5 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Challenges for the Ath... · 1 reply · +2 points
7 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Atheists Not Fully Human · 0 replies · +2 points
7 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Atheists Not Fully Human · 0 replies · +2 points
12 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Fun with the Parents · 0 replies · +2 points
She simply likes her belief but doesn't pawn that crap off on me, which is nice, but of course she can't help talking to me as if I'm part of the club, like letting me know she'll pray that I do well on a job interview, like I'd care. Imo, her whole belief thing is silly, but for the most part harmless. I think because of her, and my experience with people who indulge with the booze and drugs but remain functional, I've come to view religion as a vice which I personally don't care for, but I don't have too much of a problem with if people do it responsibly. Her belief makes her happy and she doesn't bother anyone with it, just like my friends with their vices, so be it.
I would have to say VJack, you have to tell your mom you won't accept any of her books unless she agrees to read one of yours. Fair is fair.
12 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - What is Atheism? · 0 replies · +1 points
Sometimes there's technically correct and applicably correct, and to say you're "lacking belief" is not applicably correct for it is understood by most that when you say you lack anything, you're expressing a deficiency; therefore, unless you feel deficient as an atheist, no atheist should say they lack belief.
As for spirituality, I don't see your point. The point was about how an atheist who creates a religion isn't an atheist anymore, right? It's possible for an atheist to accept spirituality and be an atheist. This was my point earlier about wishing I could distinguish myself from the woo atheists, for I'm an atheist because I find no reason to accept any god claims, but someone else could be an atheist because they have a special sense there are no gods, or that's what their tea leaves tell them, or their belief in The Force won't allow for the existence of deities.
There are plenty of roads to atheism. In fact, I value the path more than the destination, for I care more for people being critical thinkers than becoming atheist by any means.