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(There was a message hidden in there!) To not believe in afterlife, you explicitly have to not believe it, so even the denying of afterlife is based on a (nega
by lst 18y ago
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To not believe in afterlife, you explicitly have to not believe it, so even the denying of afterlife is based on a (negative) faith.
Atheists don't seem aware of being their position a simple negative faith response to a positive faith.
- mindslight 18y agoIf you're talking about "strong" atheism (asserting that no god exists) then yes, this is an act of faith as well. But "weak" atheism is merely a rejection of theism. It is not a proposed hypothesis, but a rebuke of unsupported hypotheses.
- lst 18y agoSorry, but this is already sophistication (in the archaic sense). All things that happen must have a cause. Even Big Bang had its Cause. And since the exact definition of God is: "The only one not caused by anything, but simply 'cause' of Itself", there's no escape here...