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A modest proposal... Atheism is/is not a worldview.

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  • #16
    Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
    A worldview can be atheistic, but atheism itself isn't a worldview.

    You need more to hang your hat on than simply the belief that God doesn't exist.

    Atheism itself is not a worldview. That's clear to most of the sensible atheist's, and was clear to me when I was an atheist. You have all sorts of groups that tend to be atheistic, you've got the "original" four horseman (Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchens and Harris) brandTM atheism. This later fed into various other groups. Most of the latest generation of feminists are atheists of one type or another. You have the Atheism+ movement. You have Humanists. Pearlists. Nihilistic trolls hanging around 4chan, 7chan, 8chan, 420chan... You have anarcho-libertarian objectivist atheists, who frankly don't seem that different from their Christian counterpart, except they like porn.

    In the end you have all sorts of groups with intersectional goals for what they want in society, though the various groups themselves have little in common politically. I happen to know that feministic atheists tend to distance themselves far from the rhetoric of say Dawkins.
    Well said. My worldview is atheistic, but my worldview is not atheism; in exactly the same way that a worldview may be logical, but that does not mean that logic is a worldview.
    "[Mathematics] is the revealer of every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever, then, has the effrontery to pursue physics while neglecting mathematics should know from the start he will never make his entry through the portals of wisdom."
    --Thomas Bradwardine, De Continuo (c. 1325)

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Trout View Post
      I gave up spell check for Lunt.
      download (6).jpg
      "Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
      Hear my cry, hear my shout,
      Save me, save me"

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      • #18
        I lent lint for lent.

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