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The goal of not positing assumptions is impossible and completely discarded by New Atheists and most taxi drivers.
by mieses 11y ago
The goal of not positing assumptions is impossible and completely discarded by New Atheists and most taxi drivers.
- eivarv 11y agoI'm not saying that atheists don't personally make assumptions, but that atheism does not. I'm saying that the claim that atheism is a "belief system" that makes the same kinds of assumptions as religions is intellectually dishonest at best. This is my point: There is a difference between a belief that something does not exist (what you're talking about, and a false equivalence), and a lack of belief in that same something (what the term actually means). Also, not all assumptions are equal: neither "New" Atheists nor taxi drivers go around believing every assumption they hear that has not been disproven.