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Is it "an assertion that Atheism is correct"?
- Thread starter paarsurrey
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Do we really need yet another thread on this?
Saying that there are definitely no gods is an assertion.
Saying that they don't believe in gods due to lack of evidence is not.
Saying that there are definitely no gods is an assertion.
Saying that they don't believe in gods due to lack of evidence is not.
Seriously, you have four threads on atheism within the last two days. Can you consolidate a little please?
Altfish
Veteran Member
Yes
Looks like you are going to keep repeating yourself until you hear what you want, so let me spare you the effort: yes, we atheists--all billion of us in the world--assert that Atheism (TM) is correct. As a result of this denial of cosmic truth, we are going to be burned for all of eternity, and the devil and his demons will pour Buffalo sauce on us and eat us in Hell forever and ever.
Now that you have exposed the truth about Atheism and Atheists, would you mind 1) finding a new target for meaningless, prejudiced questions, and 2) reading an article or two about the correct usage of proper nouns?
Regards.
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What "it" are you referring to?
paarsurrey
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paarsurrey said: ↑
Is it "an assertion that Atheism is correct"?
Regards
Is it "an assertion that Atheism is correct"?
So it needs no evidence for rejection as per the notion of Christopher Hitchens . Right, please?
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If there is no reason to reject, there can be no rejection.
And another "lets diss atheism thread", it this OCD i see before me?
Based on the total lack of evidence its safe to say disbelief that gods exist is a logical conclusion.
Are atheists confident in their conclusion, i would say the majority are.
Is it fact that no proof of god or gods exists... yes.
So using the criteria of the definition, yes, making a statement that atheism is correct is an assertion.
Is the justification for your faith so flimsy that you have to resort to word games to defend it?
If you'd put a comma and the quotation mark after "that," I'd agree, but even then it would be an assertion about grammatical construction, not atheism.
Question: What statement of fact do you believe atheism is asserting?
There is nothing to reject. What do you think 'atheism' is saying that could be accepted or rejected?
And this is a Strong Atheist conclusion only.
The majority of strong, or explicit atheists may be, but the majority of atheists, per se, aren't strong atheists. The majority simply lack belief, they have no conclusions regarding God.
Clarify the definition, please? I'm not seeing what fact atheism is asserting to be correct.
RabbiO
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So you've entered a contest to see how many times you can post what is basically the same question in a short period time. Correct?
And you're sorry that doing this makes you look like some unthinking, ignorant troll, but you really want to win the contest. Right?
And one can look forward to the day that the contest ends because you'll never have have to post anything else that would, mistakenly, make you look like a person who is unable to comprehend the simple to understand responses that you have received. Please?
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Has anyone made that assertion?
Of course by Hitchens your religion, whatever it is, should be rejected.
Atheist : a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.
Given the definition of atheism and the fact that no evidence of god or gods exist it is the logical conclusion
I would consider someone who who has not reached a conclusion regarding the existence of gods to be agnostic
Assertion : a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.
Fact, no evidence for the existence of gods exists
paarsurrey
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Subduction Zone
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No one has made an such assertion. How can people post assertions that have not been made?
I made my statement clear
"Based on the total lack of evidence its safe to say disbelief that gods exist is a logical conclusion."
What you are asking is for evidence of lack of evidence. Ill do you a deal, you provide valid evidence for your gods existence and I'll admit im wrong, untill then the lack of evidence is 100% solid assertion
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
Sorry, I don't agree with one here.
I believe in "G-d exists" very naturally, as I believe in my father and mother. G-d is Evident, and Evident does not need any evidence. If He had needed any evidence, then He would have not had the attribute of being Evident.
Atheism as the word depicts is pegged with Belief in G-d which presupposes that humans believed in the existence of G-d very naturally.
Right, please?
Regards
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Yes, one does not assert that atheism is correct. Atheism is the Null Hypothesis when it comes to religious beliefs. It is a place holder belief until and if when evidence for something else ever appears.
Null hypothesis - Wikipedia
"n inferential statistics, the term "null hypothesis" is a general statement or default position that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena, or no association among groups."
So far there has been nothing supplied by theists where there is a measured phenomena.