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O.T - Religion & Climbing 10-Dec-2009 At 11:23:18 PM Zebedee

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On 7/12/2009 jaebo wrote:

>atheism:
>–noun
>1. the doctrine or belief that there is no God.
>2. disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings.
>quite simply put, atheism is a belief. again, you may need to reconsider
>your understanding of what a belief is:
>
>belief
>–noun
>1. something believed; an opinion or conviction
>2. confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately
>susceptible to rigorous proof
>
>having said this, your final statement is also incorrect as the founding
>principles are incorrect.
To be an atheist is not to hold any particular belief about God(s). I have a world view (a ‘picture’ of the way things are) that contains no God(s). If it was necessary for this world view to be a belief about everything that wasn’t in it [including God(s)] then I would necessarily have to hold a particular belief for everything that wasn’t included in my world view that is to hold an infinite number of beliefs (there ain’t no spaghetti monster, their ain’t no Cyclops, their ain’t no unicorns, their ain’t no man in the moon, their ain’t no Zeus, and on through the entire list of hippy ássed cØckeyed ideas that people hold or in fact could hold) now large as my brain is it cannot hold an infinite number of anything so the logical conclusion is that a world view that contains no God(s) does not contain any belief about God(s) whatsoever.