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Atheism isn't the belief that there is no God. It's the lack of belief in any God. No, that's the modern Dawkins-cult claim, commonly proselytised by Internet
by mellosouls 6y ago
Atheism isn't the belief that there is no God. It's the lack of belief in any God.
No, that's the modern Dawkins-cult claim, commonly proselytised by Internet Atheists. Atheism has always been a more assertive position - there is no god.
Atheists' attempts to encroach on the much more rationally safe territory of agnosticism is crafty, but a sign of defeat.
- anthk 6y ago> Internet Atheists Not Internet Atheism, HN is being read worldwide. Just an European with common sense. We tought like that since decades.
- mellosouls 6y agoCommon-sense is not particular to Europeans. The wishy-washy recent re-definition of atheism as "without belief" was given modern impetus by Anthony Flew (who later converted to deism) in the late 1970s and popularised by the "New Atheists" - especially as an internet debating tactic - in the early part of this century.