Atheism isn’t an Absence in belief

On 9/3/2010 12:49 AM, DanielSan wrote:
> On 9/2/2010 5:10 PM, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
>> On 9/2/2010 6:14 PM, Scout wrote:
>>> DanielSan wrote:
>>>> On 9/2/2010 11:08 AM, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
>>>>> On 9/2/2010 1:58 PM, DanielSan wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/2/2010 8:58 AM, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
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>>>>>>> [God] is in your mind.
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>>>>>> And atheists agree totally.
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>>>>> Then Atheism is believing God is NOT in your mind.
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>>>> No. Atheism is not believing in God.
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>> You believe god exists, so that you can then NOT believe in him/her.
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> How does that work?

I’m not sure, it’s an Atheist thing….

Best I can figure is;
I need to know that Global Warming exists on some level even if it’s
only based in the cerebral world of consensus, before I can deny it is
worthy of any concern since I didn’t create it, I can’t stop it and I’m
not believing the propaganda that is all faith and based on everything
but facts. I can’t “NOT” believe in something that is unknown, so there
must be some presence of a concept that I can legitimately NOT believe in.

That makes me an Aglobalwarmingtheist

It seems Atheism needs “something to NOT believe in” to hear them tell
it. Because they say they have an absence of belief, that means they
need something to have that lack of belief in, otherwise the open end of
that is…. that they believe in NOTHING at all?

>> OR
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>> You believe God doesn’t exist.
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>> That is the only logic I can make of your statement.
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> Or, I don’t believe God exists.
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>> Otherwise you are saying you you are agnostic.
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> Agnosticism answers to a different question.
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