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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Old Atheist Strawman

One of the most irritating things about being an atheist, is when people intentionally try to misconstrue your position as faith-based. It usually comes in the form of an accusation like "You have faith that God doesn't exist", by the time you attempt to correct them, your detractor has usually moved onto something else, or if not they generally seem to ignore you.
I wrote a post last year explaining the positions of atheism and agnosticism and showed why they are not mutually exclusive, because they are essentially dealing with different realms. In short, agnosticism is claiming you do not or cannot have any knowledge pertaining to the existence of god(s), while atheism is a reaction to the claim that god exists.


This 'faith' strawman is rather puzzling, because the accuser is almost always a person who believes in god purely on faith, yet they accuse us of having a faith, as if it was a bad thing. There is no more faith involved in being an atheist that there is in rejecting the validity of homeopathic medicine. Until you show me evidence that your unlikely claim is true, I am going to disbelieve it, which requires no faith on my part

7 comments:

  1. are you eating your own shit yet? you will be...


    THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION!

    let them eat their own sh*t!

    the WORLD TRADE CENTER PROPHECY - THE DANCE OF DEATH

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Hez25fFrg


    the ungrateful bastards full of hubris...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris




    a bullet for your head, traitor

    And finally, the *only* man in Minnesota who says there is no God has suddenly become an arbiter on mental health...

    http://www.unfacts.org/factsforum/viewtopic.php?t=4080



    COME SEE A PHOTO OF MABUS AND AN EXPLANATION OF IT!

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  2. shred

    repent and turn to God or be destroyed...


    we give you ONE FINAL CHANCE...

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  3. Hey Dennis baby, wanna have a gay fuck tonight?

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  4. This is interesting, you make some good points! I'm a fan.

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  5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNDZb0KtJDk

    This is good video on this topic.

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  6. Wow.... those top three comments scare me... o.o
    Anyway, I recently ran into this same situation. A good friend of mine actually, asked me about 'my faith' and when I replied that I was not religious she said 'Yeah, your faith is in Atheism." -_- I wish that I could make people understand that 'theism' means a faith system and 'a' is a contraction that makes the word opposite. Buuuuuut people tend to be stupid. :/
    Well I like the points you've raised. I'm going to be a follower for a while. :)

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  7. Yeah 2 of the top 3 are Dennis Markuze, the notorious death-threat-spammer.

    Thanks for your comment, I should really make an effort to keep my posting regular since I have a fair number of followers, and I'm frequently getting messages saying something like "Post more!". I'll see what I can conjure up.

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