For all the strong atheists, why do you label yourselves this way? If I claimed to be a fundamentalist Christian, many people would interpret this as a bad thing.
2007-04-23 11:47:03 · 11 answers · asked by robbob 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No Skeptic, I don't know. That's why I'm asking.
2007-04-23 11:56:55 · update #1
A 'strong atheist' is someone who asserts there is no such thing as a deity. This is my stance: I believe all deities are symbols and metaphors for something so abstract our minds can't comprehend it. It's an attempt to define the indefinable.
I am a Taoist, and I do not believe deities are actually real. I believe they are symbols. Therefore I am a strong atheist.
2007-04-23 11:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even despite the fact that I have to admit that more commonly I sound like a "powerful" atheist, at moments where I am no longer so "filled with myself", I calm down and admit that, whilst I will certainly not take delivery of distinctive descriptions of God in that they're irrational and egoistic, there is also extra to the complete argument. For instance, might be "God" is a state of attention, a way of connectedness, a few mystical revel in that I have no longer had. At those moments, I consider I am extra of a vulnerable atheist. I don't wish to make the identical mistake as foremost devout persons; to insist I am correct approximately whatever I can't recognize for definite. It turns out extremely not likely that, in a global full of such arbitrary cruelty and mindless affliction, that there's an all-robust deity watching over and taking care of billions of persons. However, simply due to the fact that belief of God in no longer legitimate does not imply they all are
2016-09-05 21:34:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone starts as a weak atheist, a strong atheist is on par with a normal christian. Then there are extremists and fundies. Strong atheism essentially just says there is enough proof against god/gods on a logical basis to hold the standpoint that god does not exist.
2007-04-23 11:52:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very few atheists say "they know for a fact there's no god", most are what Richard Dawkins calls a "de facto atheist", meaning that you recognise that you can't prove something's NOT there, but the probability of there being a deity(s) is so low you live as an atheist. That is how I describe myself also.
2007-04-23 11:52:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not one - more agnostic. But I see no reason why a person could not feel strongly anti-religious after all the harm religions have caused either their foes or their adherants. And an atheist could just feel strongly that the entire notion of virgin birth and water walking to be rather ridiculous.
2007-04-23 11:54:20 · answer #5 · answered by HomeSweetSiliconValley 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say I am 99% sure that there is no god, the 1% leaving for the discoveries we have yet to be made in science. But I am 100% sure that the god portrayed in the religions of the world is not the one either.
2007-04-23 11:58:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The difference is that fundamentalist Christians are wrong.
2007-04-23 11:53:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it takes a lot to be an atheist. you'd be pretty surprised at how differently people will treat you because of it. nowadays, religion is the "norm". it's hard to go against society. you do have to be strong to stick up for yourself and your belief system.
2007-04-23 11:53:20 · answer #8 · answered by sunshine 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
maybe because they're completely different things.
but hey you know.
Well they're opposite ends of the spectrum, Comparing Fundies to Atheists is like comparing Nazis to Communists.
2007-04-23 11:50:37 · answer #9 · answered by Skeptic123 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
because i'm PROUD to be this intelligent about the lack of a god!
2007-04-23 11:52:12 · answer #10 · answered by Adrian L 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋