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The way I've always seen it is that lack of belief in something doesn't really demand evidence. How would one prove that they don't believe in something? At l
by soylentcola 6y ago
The way I've always seen it is that lack of belief in something doesn't really demand evidence. How would one prove that they don't believe in something?
At least from my (personal) perspective, the lack of belief in gods stems from not having found or experienced sufficient reason to think there likely are gods. It's not that I'm claiming to know or believe that there are certainly not any gods out there in the universe. I just can't find anything to back up the claim that there are.
- jgalt212 6y ago> that lack of belief in something But isn't that more agnosticism that atheism?
- soylentcola 6y agoIt's probably a matter of semantics, but in my experience and usage, "theism" is belief in a deity/deities. "a- theism" is lack of belief in such, much in the way asexual reproduction is reproduction without the use of sex rather than "at odds with" the use of sex. Gnosticism and agnosticism refer to knowledge or lack thereof. If I cared to use labels, I'd classify myself as an agnostic atheist. I don't claim the certainty of knowledge that there couldn't be deities, but I don't personally believe there are any (at least not in the sense of ultra-powerful entities that have/had some sort of interaction with the doings of humanity).
- markjohn123123 6y agovisit: https://tangent.com/mail/yahoo-mail/ https://tangent.com/mail/yahoo-mail/