are you an atheist that used to be a theist?

[John99]

GOD

as belief in a deity is wholly irrational. given the lack of evidence for such a possiblity

Evolution=:shrug:

it's not a question of absolute proof, it is a question of it being the most likely, given the evidence we have at the moment, fanastising a god did it scenerio is wholly infantile.

ha ha ha

:bravo:

 

[ashura]

which is like saying a traffic cop is a lawyer simply because he knows something about the law. or a gravedigger is a mortician simply because knows a little about death.

reference this thread, page 4, post 72.

No, no, no.

It's like saying a traffic cop is a traffic cop, or a lawyer is a lawyer, because that's what those things are! The definition of an atheist is someone who does not believe in god.

 

[geeser]

An atheist IS a non believer!

which is like saying a traffic cop is a lawyer simply because he knows something about the law. or a gravedigger is a mortician simply because knows a little about death.

No, no, no.

It's like saying a traffic cop is a traffic cop, or a lawyer is a lawyer, because that's what those things are! The definition of an atheist is someone who does not believe in god.

So an atheist is an atheist and a non-believer is a non-believer, so you agree, well.
No, the definition of an atheist is a person who has no belief, without belief in deities. From the Greek {A} without, {Theo’s} god.
An atheist is a person who has taken a reasoned step forward. The non-believer is just, what is name implies. He is still open to suggestion. The atheist is not.

 

[Hapsburg]

Nah, not really. I never really believed in any gods.

I've always had a thing for animism, though, but that's not theism at all.

 

[one_raven]

How about someone who used to be Catholic, but is now an agnostic who wholly regects the notion of the popular version of the Judeo-Christain version of God?
How would that person vote - the first option, the second, or neither?