If you prowl the nonbeliever blogs as I do, you often come across people who are either new to the world of non-theistic life and looking for ways to express themselves to their faithful friends and family, or who are giving vent to their frustration at the pervasiveness and social power of religion. Either way, there seems to be a continuing need for such folks to justify their lack of belief. I was like this once, too. The thing is, non-theists sometimes rely on arguments that are as poorly-worded or as logically weak, as the theistic arguments that they refute. The Unreligious Right offers a quick rundown of some common claims by nonbelievers and finds some of them wanting in the validity department as either too immodest as phrased or fallacious. A useful reminder that no tribe has a monopoly on intellectual error.
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It amazes me how many people there are who call their faith “atheism”.
And how many people seem to want to live in a universe with a provable God who affects human things in ways that humans can understand! Who could want to live in a world like that, watched by the ultimate Big Brother?
Hm… those aren’t reasons why that guy’s an atheist. They’re reasons why he’s not a Christian…
Most of the atheism I’ve experience and interacted with is reaction.
If you break “atheism” down, you get three parts:
Without
God
Ism
I’ve met as more atheists who embrace (without god)ism than I have who embrace without (godism).