• Flax@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    You believe that there is no god or gods, and that people shouldn’t believe in them either. That is a belief.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t believe there is are gods, or unicorns, or green elephants. “Don’t believe” = “no belief”.

      And personally I couldn’t care less what other people believe, as long as they keep it to themselves and don’t bother anybody.

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      1 year ago

      Stating that there’s no evidence for god is not any kind of belief. Now stating that there’s one even though the lack of evidence, that requires belief

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        1 year ago

        Of course it is, and it’s an irrational belief if you’re unable to define God.

        I’m a theist but i’m probably an atheist with your definition of the Creator/Light/Highness/‘absolute Existence’/…, which is probably some long-bearded man with superpowers that you can touch like in Marvel movies, or something like that, yes ?

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          it’s an irrational belief if you’re unable to define God.

          There is literally an infinite number of things that do not exist. We do not need to define them to not believe in their existence.

          In fact it is up to theists to define what they mean by God but conveniently it means a different thing every time it comes up, depending on what is needed to make the lunatic arguments that religious people come up with for God’s existence (e.g. ontological argument, Pascal’s Wager,…) work and to explain why there is never any evidence of God’s intervention in anything and to explain why somehow people should still care and structure their entire lives around the belief. Classic Motte and Bailey arguments by changing the definition around depending on how strongly their belief is being attacked.