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Concepts shouldn't be dependent on the language they're conveyed in, though. Try translating the passage to a language without the word "worship", or with 100 s

Concepts shouldn't be dependent on the language they're conveyed in, though. Try translating the passage to a language without the word "worship", or with 100 sub-distinctions, or introduce a concept like "zen" and his point falls apart. He also introduces a false dichotomy which equates "worship" with "theism". If I "worship" money or sex, no one would seriously say that makes me a "theist". So even if we accept his warped use of the term "worship", his claim that atheism doesn't exist still doesn't hold up.

IHLayman 6y ago
> If I “worship” money or sex, no one would seriously say that makes me a “theist”. The Greeks had a god of wealth that they worshipped, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutus. Furthermore, there is an entire page of sex/fertility deities on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_love_and_lust_deities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_love_and_lust_deities. Maybe you are conflating theism with monotheism.
throw0101a 6y ago
> Concepts shouldn't be dependent on the language they're conveyed in, though. Well: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity > So even if we accept his warped use of the term "worship", his claim that atheism doesn't exist still doesn't hold up. It may be useful to go to the full source: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water * https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI The key phrase is "day-to day trenches of adult life".