Christianity Megathread

[Ipquarx]

also the chart is just flat out wrong. Atheism is just a lack of belief in a god. Answering "I don't know" means you lack a belief in a god, making you an atheist. It just makes you an agnostic atheist. Answering "No" would make you a gnostic atheist.

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[otto-san]

also the chart is just flat out wrong. Atheism is just a lack of belief in a god. Answering "I don't know" means you lack a belief in a god, making you an atheist. It just makes you an agnostic atheist. Answering "No" would make you a gnostic atheist.

i think "don't know" is just ambiguous anyway, but i don't think it necessarily implies atheism. it could apply just as well to agnostic theism

[Taciturn]

Hey you atheists I have a question for you.

Why don't you believe in God? Spite, or like, lack of evidence? I know I made it sound like I'm challenging you but I'm only curious.

[Unwritten Calender]

Hey you atheists I have a question for you.

Why don't you believe in God? Spite, or like, lack of evidence? I know I made it sound like I'm challenging you but I'm only curious.

i'm not atheist but i'm gonna say lack of evidence is probably the biggest thing

[Daswiruch]

Why don't you believe in God? Spite, or like, lack of evidence?

a combination of both but mostly the extreme lack of evidence

[beachbum111111]

i'm not atheist but i'm gonna say lack of evidence is probably the biggest thing

I think the answer would surprise both of us. I know a lot of atheists who get way too emotionally invested when talking about religion

[Nonnel]

i personally can't understand the logic in believing the universe was made and is watched over by a giant magic man but whatever floats your boat
as long as you're not being an starfish to people because of an old book about the guy

[Juncoph]

Hey you atheists I have a question for you.

Why don't you believe in God? Spite, or like, lack of evidence? I know I made it sound like I'm challenging you but I'm only curious.

lack of evidence, and disdain for the fact that religion spreads by other people telling you to believe it the moment you're old enough to listen.

[Clownfish]

so im just gonna pose this question to everybody here
are the people who go out of their way to try to disprove people's religion to their faces trying to spread atheism and thus are doing the exact same thing

[Juncoph]

so im just gonna pose this question to everybody here
are the people who go out of their way to try to disprove people's religion to their faces trying to spread atheism and thus are doing the exact same thing

no, because the people trying to spread it don't have authority over you starting at your birth.

plus you're born an agnostic atheist.

[Red Spy]

Hey you atheists I have a question for you.

Why don't you believe in God? Spite, or like, lack of evidence? I know I made it sound like I'm challenging you but I'm only curious.

I sort of blur the line between Atheist and Theist but if I had to answer it'd be that God hasn't really shown any proof of his existence since the 600s

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

Hey you atheists I have a question for you.

Why don't you believe in God? Spite, or like, lack of evidence? I know I made it sound like I'm challenging you but I'm only curious.

It's a lack of evidence for the most part. Like, I don't know that there is a god. I don't know anyone who knows. Anyone who may have known at any point is now long dead. The only reason anyone thinks that they know now is because people have faith that other people knew that there was a god. There's a chance that it could be true, but all we have to go off of really boils down to word of mouth.

[Machaty]

That's an intresting flow chart. That being said, relativism and existentialism can be one in the same, ya know? Idk I guess my beliefs are just a mix of the 2

[sir dooble]

also the chart is just flat out wrong. Atheism is just a lack of belief in a god. Answering "I don't know" means you lack a belief in a god, making you an atheist. It just makes you an agnostic atheist. Answering "No" would make you a gnostic atheist.

I would just say that there's no perfect agreed upon definition/clarification for the words Atheism and Agnosticism.
Your approach, that of agnosticism being a subset of atheism is one view I've seen, mostly on this website.

However, the curriculum of my A Level Religious Studies course had a different view. That being that;
 - Agnosticism is a choice to neither believe there is or isn't a God/gods. It accepts that there could be a deity and therefore isn't atheism.
 - Atheism is the act of not believing in a God/gods. It can be further divided into two forms;
 -- Hard Atheism: A chosen disbelief in deities, often stemming from personal consideration on the matter.
 -- Soft Atheism: An unchosen disbelief in deities arising from having never considered the existence of deities.


So for me, I identify as an Agnostic, but not an Atheist. While I don't believe there is a God, I also don't believe there isn't a God. I don't know if there is or isn't a God. And I believe it would be foolish to take one view over the other without more concrete evidence.

You might label me as an agnostic atheist, but to me the title of atheist implies that I won't consider the possibility of a God.

[Remurr]

You might label me as an agnostic atheist, but to me the title of atheist implies that I won't consider the possibility of a God.

I feel the same way, I can't really see how agnosticism and atheism can kind of be... Conjoined when atheism discounts the possibility of there even being a god-- or, several, I suppose.