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Originally Posted by Solace  I gladly entertain atheists regularly, as I find that a good bit of what they have to say is far more pertinent than what religious folk talk about. But yes, some of them do take their convictions to a whole new level of persistence. I recently compared what one atheist on this site was saying to what the very relgious people he despised were saying, that the similarities between how they represent their respective points of view were remarkable. But, shall we say, less hard-nosed atheism is more about taking a skeptical view of God's existence rather than insisting vehemently that God does not, or even, cannot exist. |
So do you consider those hard nose 'atheists' true atheists? If so then atheists are not skeptics. Perhapse they are not atheists but antitheists. Atheist is more indicative of not anti-god sentiment but avoidence of religous conviction and embracement religous and moral skepticism. Antitheism would indicate the assertion of no god as opposed to the opposite assertion that all of theism makes. What do you say to this?