Re: What are atheists for?

2017-03-29 Thread Brent Meeker
On 29-03-2017 00:50, Kim Jones wrote: Atheists have no special function or any special beliefs. They are a religion like any other. That would be a religion UNLIKE any other. Every religion has special beliefs. And they remain special because they are held independent of evidence and so

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-03-29 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/29/2017 10:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The problem is that many atheists exploit a confusion between failing to believe in x, ~[]x, and believing in the inexistence or falsity of x, []~x. On the contrary; it is religionists who exploit this confusion to falsely criticize atheism as "ju

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-03-29 Thread smitra
Historically, this was different as everyone used to be indoctrinated by religion. It was the default ideology, quite some intellectual effort was needed to see that it was all nonsense, at least in the sense that you could't assume that what the Bible said was true. When science started to be

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-03-29 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​ > Definition: God is Reality. ​Idiocy is ​certainly real so the statement "God is a idiot" is true. And now that you've changed ​ ​the ​ meaning and we have 2 words that mean the same thing ​there is a empty space in the language that n

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-03-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Mar 2017, at 01:53, Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/28/2017 3:50 PM, Kim Jones wrote: Atheists have no special function or any special beliefs. They are a religion like any other. They believe in God's non-existence, that's all. No, they just fail to believe in God's existence. And that

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-03-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Mar 2017, at 17:11, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Dominic Johnson What are atheists for? Hypotheses on the functions of non-belief in the evolution of religion Religion, Brain & Behavior Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2012, 48-99 http://dominicdpjohnson.com/publications/pdf/2012JohnsonWhatAreAtheist

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-03-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed., 29 Mar. 2017 at 5:16 pm, Kim Jones wrote: > > On 29 Mar 2017, at 3:32 pm, Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: > > > On Wed., 29 Mar. 2017 at 10:30 am, Kim Jones > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 29 Mar 2017, at 10:22 am, 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.c