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No: us atheists say - "there is no independent, testable evidence of any gods." Further to your point: we also say there is no evidence for the tooth fairy. My
by throwaway210222 5y ago
No: us atheists say - "there is no independent, testable evidence of any gods."
Further to your point: we also say there is no evidence for the tooth fairy. My daughter truly believes in the tooth fairy. My position vis a vis the fairy is not "exactly like her belief, but the opposite."
- beardyw 5y agoSorry to be picky but the atheists I know would call that agnostic. On the other hand I think many atheists would be better called anti-theists.
- version_five 5y agoThat's basically what I had thought (I'm the grandparent poster), and I had included a definition in my post to try and make it clear what I meant. As a sibling post pointed out > This only applies to gnostic atheism. An agnostic atheist like me admits to not knowing if $DEITY exists but does not believe in the absence of compelling evidence. So it seems like there are different flavors of atheist. But you can also see the other person that answered my post with a rant about how god doesn't exist and science won. This vocal kind of atheist is what I was calling "religious"