And actually Richard Dawkins very emphatically calls himself an atheist.
In fact he's famously an atheist... So don't know what your thinking here.
I don't think it is actually true that you can't know one way or another.
However even if I were to accept that...
If you don't have evidence for the existence of something then the correc ...[text shortened]...
default position. And it requires no faith to hold it whatsoever.
As you should well know.
Pleaase get your facts right. If you have read "The God Delusion", Richard Dawkins clearly outlines, on page 73, the spectrum of disbelief on a scale of 1 to 7, 1 being strong theist. 100 per cent probability of God and 7 being Strong atheist "I know there is no God." Richard aligns himself as a 6: very low probability, but short of zero "I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable. (my italics). These are not the words, as I said before, of an out and out atheist.
Originally posted by SwissGambit Surely I am not alone in having hated certain fictional characters from books, tv shows, movies, etc.
Superman might have been fictional but he still existed.
You might hate superman but you recognize that he exists it the form of TV or comics as fiction. If you recognize the existence of god in any form in order to hate him you are not an atheist.
Originally posted by Trev33 Superman might have been fictional but he still existed.
You might hate superman but you recognize that he exists it the form of TV or comics as fiction. If you recognize the existence of god in any form in order to hate him you are not an atheist.
"Fictional atheists" as opposed to "factual atheists"?
Originally posted by Trev33 Superman might have been fictional but he still existed.
You might hate superman but you recognize that he exists it the form of TV or comics as fiction. If you recognize the existence of god in any form in order to hate him you are not an atheist.
To me, a fictional character does not "exist". "Exist" means the person or thing is, or was at some point in time, actualized in the real world.
Superman is in the same boat as the fictional character "God". Neither exists.
Originally posted by Pianoman1 Pleaase get your facts right. If you have read "The God Delusion", Richard Dawkins clearly outlines, on page 73, the spectrum of disbelief on a scale of 1 to 7, 1 being strong theist. 100 per cent probability of God and 7 being Strong atheist "I know there is no God." Richard aligns himself as a 6: very low probability, but short of zero "I cannot know fo ...[text shortened]... robable[/i]. (my italics). These are not the words, as I said before, of an out and out atheist.
I can't find my copy of the book, but I am fairly certain that 6. is still well within his 'atheist' category.
Originally posted by Pianoman1 Pleaase get your facts right. If you have read "The God Delusion", Richard Dawkins clearly outlines, on page 73, the spectrum of disbelief on a scale of 1 to 7, 1 being strong theist. 100 per cent probability of God and 7 being Strong atheist "I know there is no God." Richard aligns himself as a 6: very low probability, but short of zero "I cannot know fo ...[text shortened]... robable[/i]. (my italics). These are not the words, as I said before, of an out and out atheist.
An atheist is simply someone who doesn't believe that gods exist.
A definition Dawkins promotes.
He doesn't believe gods exist.
Therefore he is an atheist, and he calls himself such.
He may not claim to be a gnostic strong atheist, but that doesn't mean he is not an atheist.
There is more atheists than...
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