Atheists are a team.
They might not understand agnostics, but I do not think many people have a problem disliking fundamentalists of any belief system, be that Hindu, Moslem, Atheist, Jewish, Christian or duck.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 11:39, Reply)
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(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 11:47, Reply)
Atheism doesn't require you to actively reject any gods/deities/supernatural bollocks (that's anti-theism). Atheism is simply not having beliefs.
To use the football analogy:
Atheists don't follow football at all.
Anti-theists don't like football and don't think any team is worth following.
Agnostics don't think we can know which team is right to follow.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 11:54, Reply)
In fact, atheists believe that there is no God.
That belief is not based on provable fact, any more than Hindu or Abrahamic religions are - it is faith based.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 12:01, Reply)
So, they're saying, prove it and we'll believe as well. But until you can.....
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 12:25, Reply)
Prove it or we will ridicule you.
I would feel the same about someone who said 'prove that there is no God or I shall ridicule you'.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:02, Reply)
...as I don't consider the lack of a belief the equivalent of an active disbelief.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 12:33, Reply)
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(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 13:29, Reply)
since it is belief without proof.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:03, Reply)
saying atheism is like a religion, is like saying that not collecting stamps is a hobby
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 14:05, Reply)
I do not think that atheism is a religion. It is, in fact, definitely not.
It is a faith though.
(, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:03, Reply)