PHKing Kigwa
Eternal Poster
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copy pasteHi JF!
I see no misconceptions to my understanding of atheism. What you are trying is you are creating or echoing an idea on atheism in order to put all the burden of proof to the theist or to establish atheism as immutable to all forms of criticisms. Not all atheists agree to your own idea of atheism.
Atheism is a belief. Maybe even a prevailing belief in an era, but this does not make it as the ultimate truth to be the default standard for all truths in all space-time, dimensions and realities. Atheism is not absolute or ultimate, it is also subject to changes just as other world views. It takes open-minded ness to admit that atheism is a belief becoming prominent in this era. However, what for example, in the year 3000 A.D.?Is atheism still the truth? What if in the year 2999 AD God made himself observable? Or what if the soul exists that when you die, there is a God or gods waiting you in alternative realities? A God can have the power to not let us himself provable or knowable but this does not make God can not or does.not exist just due to our ability to observe.
Atheism is not simply lacking in belief. It is a belief out of the claim that there is no God. It is an intellectual position. This position is a claim. In intellectual matters, there is no neutral position. When you claim something intellectually, you construct arguments which you believe are the truths.
A person can not stay neutral in the atheism-theism issue. Once he enters the issue, he can not avoid a position. Atheism is different from agnosticism as far as God's existence is concerned. The agnostic suspends all intellectual judgment until informations or sufficient knowledge is available.
If you really want someone or something that lacks beliefs or claims nothing, refer to a cat or rock. Can we say then that the cat or rock is an atheist because it lacks beliefs or claims nothing about God's existence? It is ludicrous to say then that the cat is an atheist because it can not intellectualize.
Lack of believe is actually a non-issue. Atheism is an issue just as theism. Atheism reasons out why the world or reality is such and such so that and so on by constructing arguments where these arguments the atheist believes as the truths. If the atheist does not believe in his arguments, then he is contradicting himself. If atheism is merely lack of believe, then the self confessed atheist stops arguing that theism is totally false and say nothing of anything about reality. However, is it the truth or fact that atheists do not take positions or actions in world affairs as they are influenced by atheism? Reality check!
As I have said, you need to exist to all of spacetime, dimensions and realties in order to establish the ultimacy and absoluteness of atheism. All worldviews hinge on beliefs affected by our limited lifetime, experience, observation and power of reasoning. Atheism is not exempted. Atheism constantly offers alternative arguments to theism hence, it establishes its own belief and it can not stay neutral or unaffected and must also join the theist in carrying the burden of proof to support its claim.
Note: this is my final statement on the meaning of atheism. You can say otherwise about atheism but there is no single authority on the meaning of atheism. I made my statement.
