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Um, certainly the US. But I was referring to the world.
That is most certainly true. In exactly the same way, atheism also requires faith such that even in the face of some amazing event that served to prove beyond any sort of doubt the existence of a deity, the majority would continue to be unconvinced.
This, my dear friend, not only explains a lot, but is a prescription for years and years of very expensive — and unfortunately not helpful — psychotherapy.
I am not sure I follow. As a practicing apatheist and skeptic, I certainly appreciate that questions such as the formation of the Universe and the meaning of life are great imponderables.
Thank you! I was going to dogpile on dah328, but you pretty much said what I was going to. I'd add that, while there are undoubtedly many atheists in the world who would cling to their beliefs no matter what happened (as would, I feel compelled to point out, many theists of various stripes), a great number of us are atheists simply because, having reviewed the evidence and examined our logic, we simply do not believe that there is any good reason to believe in a deity.
I am not sure I follow. As a practicing apatheist and skeptic, I certainly appreciate that questions such as the formation of the Universe and the meaning of life are great imponderables.
This makes sense to me. What I don't understand are people of all stripes (Christian, Muslim, Atheist, whatever) who are so hostile to other people's choice of belief systems. As far as I'm concerned, as long as you're not trying to harm someone else, you can believe in whatever the hell you want -- Christ, Mommamed, Xenu, The Almighty Dollar, whatever. If it works for you and helps you make sense of the world, and helps you answer some of the otherwise unanswerable questions, cool. No skin off my nose.
This does not negate what I posted. That you are unpersuaded as to the existence of a particular deity is no proof that one does not exist. That you choose to live your life as if none exist is therefore an act of faith -- a rather significant act of faith as the consequences in most religions for such actions are rather severe. I intend only to point out that atheism is no less a dogmatic and faith-based belief system than any other deistic belief system.
This makes sense to me. What I don't understand are people of all stripes (Christian, Muslim, Atheist, whatever) who are so hostile to other people's choice of belief systems. As far as I'm concerned, as long as you're not trying to harm someone else, you can believe in whatever the hell you want -- Christ, Mommamed, Xenu, The Almighty Dollar, whatever. If it works for you and helps you make sense of the world, and helps you answer some of the otherwise unanswerable questions, cool. No skin off my nose.
None of these have anything to do with a/theism per se, but only the specifics of individual religious structures.
The dogmatic faith of atheists usually takes the form of a worshipping of reason, which is no different a belief system than any other propagated throughout history.
In what sense are you intending the word "reason" here? Because if you're just talking about logic, then it's not a "belief system" per se. It doesn't really matter what you do, something cannot be both A and Not A at the same time. It's just how things are.
Exactly.
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