Atheism by definition is the lack of belief. For example: if told that there are giant invisible spiders in my backyard and I reject that claim, I am a disbeliever of those giant spiders. If told there are squirrels in my back yard while being shown photo evidence, and I still choose not to believe given evidence that at that momment I don't see any squirrels, I become someone that believes there are no squirrels. In conclusion, the difference between disbelieving and not believing is that the first takes the stance based on no evidence and the second takes the stance based on rejecting evidence because there is other (or better) evidence to refute those.
All your religions are based on ZERO evidence. Saying "the evidence is all around you" is not evidence. Saying "just like a watchmaker has a maker the human must have a maker" isn't evidence either. What you have in your hands is ignorance being passed off as evidence.
Understood Theists?
2007-01-05 13:36:46 · 23 answers · asked by Alucard 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, I see what you're saying. I can see your point, but I have faith in what I cannot see. I believe by relying on faith.
I respect your point of view and hope that you can respect mine.
2007-01-05 13:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by musicgirl31♫ 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Since you have not the ability to experience subjectively that which is evident to my mind personally, it is nonsensical and prejudicial to say that I have no evidence of God.
You cannot possibly know what I do and do not have evidence of since you cannot exit your own consciousness and enter into my own.
Christians may or may not have a definition of atheism for themselves that would be satisfactory to you. However I am not so sure that your acceptance of my definition validates your right to assert ignorance on my part for believing the evidence which has led me to my faith in God.
Rather ignorance by definition is the condition or quality of being ignorant through a lack of knowledge, education or awareness and is derived from the root word ignore and infers a deliberate disregard and refusal to consider without regard to evidence.
So I think this ignorance you assign to theists is more adequately demonstrated by yourself for purposes of intolerance and prejudicial discrimination against believers.
So why don't you just cut all the rhetoric and submit a statement of genuine and honest disdain for anything spiritual and admit that you have not yet learned that the God that gave you a brain expects you to use it for something more than experiments in treating hair loss.
2007-01-05 14:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by messenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible for a person who chooses not to believe, for any reason, to be convinced otherwise. It is your decision. So what is your problem.
I am not going to accuse you of spouting ignorance. Why do atheists try to convince believers that there is ZERO evidence. I have absolute evidence. Not everyone does; not everyone will.
Have a nice life.
2007-01-05 13:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i thought dis meant anti or not, so disbelief would be different than lack of belief
atheism actually can mean either believing there are no gods or lacking belief of gods, look it up, i am an atheist and i know what it means
2007-01-05 13:40:33 · answer #4 · answered by 42yxalag 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of atheist? Theist comes from the Greek word Theos, which means God. In Greek, when you put an "A" at the beginning of a word, it means the word is against it's original meaning. Again in Greek, when you put "A" in front of Theos, you get Atheos, which means against God. Atheos is the word from which we get our English word Atheist.
2007-01-05 13:45:26 · answer #5 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understood, Atheist.
2007-01-05 13:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have asked your question, and given your answer as well.
Don't try to parse words by using disbeliever or unbeliever.
You have rejected God no matter why you have done so.
To say that you have a valid reason to reject God is unimportant.
grace2u
2007-01-05 13:42:02 · answer #7 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes sir
2007-01-05 13:40:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like my daddy always used to say, "a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." Did I get it right?
2007-01-05 13:40:36 · answer #9 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, atheists have confidence that God would not exist even with medical data that the universe isn't everlasting and might desire to not have created itself out of a gradual state of absolute not something.
2016-10-30 03:07:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋