If god is nothing or non existing and the Atheist believes in the end there is nothing? Is that belief in "nothing" a form of "God" for a logical Atheist? (in so much that the concept or obsession on the end being "nothing" functions as fundamentalism?)
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Since "God" doesn't exist, how then can we consider him "nothing" To do so would imply that there was something there in the first place.
Gaawa-chan
Atheism is a lack of belief in a god or gods. It's simple enough to understand if you look at other words: apath, without feeling.
The 'a' before 'theism' denotes the lacking.
There are atheists who do hold a belief that a god or gods do not exist, though. But there are also atheists who believe in afterlives or are members of religions, like Confucianism.
This is why it is not a good idea to attempt to make blanket statements about atheists... because it's impossible. There are religious atheists, conservative atheists, etc. The only thing that atheists absolutely do have in common is that they lack a belief in a god or gods.
To say that 'God' is replaced by 'nothing' in some sort of... atheist dogma is a fallacious argument.
Nihilists, though... well... you'd have to take it up with them.
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Atheists conclude that there are no gods, based on the evidence. Gods are not nothing; they simply don't exist.
Atheism is thus a conclusion. There is no atheist fundamentalism. It's a straw man.
There's no reliable evidence for Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Thor, or any of the thousands of other gods that people have worshipped. There's also extensive evidence that they are all just myths. Science has shown that there's no need for gods to explain the traditional reasons for a god -- origin of the universe, origin of life, origin of species, origin of humans, origin of morality. Science also shows us the psychological reasons that people believe in god(s).
If a god like Yahweh or Allah existed there would be explicit evidence. No such evidence exists, therefore these gods do not exist.
Anonymous
No...that's not it...
The Truth is...
None of us even knows or ever have or ever will know the exact details of life's origins. The entire surface of this planet has essentially been wiped out several times over billions of years, and it might as well be a new planet every billion years or so...
Religion (God, etc) is a wild guess, and it's a pretty far-fetched one in this Modern Scientific Age of Reason and high technology.
With our Modern Day flying technology, "we" would've been considered God(s) by our Bronze Age Religious-oriented Middle Eastern Brethren, who hadn't a clue about the planet they lived on.
Everything probably seemed pretty "spooky & spiritual" to them, so God seemed like a reasonable explanation, but...
We know better than that now days.
It's not gods or spirits or any invisible being at all...
It's called...
"Natural Planetary Phenomena..."
And we discovered the "secret of life," and it's a complex clever little molecule called "DNA," and...
We believe what we've found out about the reality of existence, that invisible beings are mythological and fable-istic supersititious fictions, not actual beings, and...
skepsis
Incorrect, and a pathetic attempt at logic. In WHAT "end" is there nothing? Atheists do not believe IN nothing, they just do NOT believe in "God". By not existing, "God" is not a subject for belief.