Friday, August 12, 2011

Atheists if you believe there is no God, then that is a belief, ok?

"Atheists if you believe there is no God, then that is a belief, ok?" True, but "believing there is no god" is not the definition of atheism. Lacking a belief in X encompes both believing not X and not taking a position as to X's existence. Believing there is no god is one subset of atheism, sometimes called "strong atheism", whereas a simple lack of belief in gods is "weak atheism". A person can even be strongly atheistic about some gods and weakly atheistic about others.

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