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To: little jeremiah
Atheism is a belief system, so in that sense it’s a religion. A belief. With less proof than theism to back it up, though...

Some might say that a lack of believing in a thing does not constitute a "belief", but merely the non-belief in the thing being asserted. And those same people might say that the burden of proof is on the advocate of that "belief."

Some would say. Me? I ain't talkin'.

169 posted on 03/28/2018 8:59:58 PM PDT by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: bagster
It is essentially impossible to hold a philosophical perspective of any kind without belief being involved.

You seem to equate "belief" with "religion" in some classical religion sense. But strictly speaking, that's not quite accurate.

Most folks 'believe' that the cars zooming by the intersection will stop when their red light shows to them. Most folks believe that drunks will not run a red light and T-bone them.

Belief that there is no God is certainly also a belief. That belief also has it's origins and supporting hypotheses etc. etc. etc.

I'll stop there before Qx eggs me on into one of his major treatises.

183 posted on 03/28/2018 9:12:25 PM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: bagster

If people are Qagnostic it would be more rational than being Qatheist (or Qgnostic and Qtheist, as per your request).

Because how can anyone “know” that Q is a larp/fake/whatever, unless that person IS the fake/larping Q?

[Way off topic but the root of the words gnostic and know is jnana (Sanskrit)...]


184 posted on 03/28/2018 9:12:29 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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