Is athiesm a belief? What is "God?"

[Torillian]

wfz said:

Torillian said:

That would depend on how you qualify living, if you mean that the God created the world and then died then I would say there's no point in praying to something that can't hear you.

Same as above.

I would say that there's no point in worshipping an inanimate thing that governs you because that will have no affect on how the inanimate thing governs you.  You can thank a tree for giving you oxygen to breath but the tree doesn't really care so I as an atheist don't care to participate.  I won't scorn you for doing so if it helps you be happy, though.  Even if the tree doesn't care about you thanking it if it makes you feel better that's reason enough.

edit: the issue I think you're going to have through this discussion is that being an atheist doesn't require any specific set of beliefs so I can't talk about what all atheists believe only what I personally believe and why I personally do not pray to any god.

Ack you caught my post before i edited it. I took out worshiped because it was a blatantly wrong word to use. I don't think we should worship any God. The idea is silly to me. So yes I agree with you there. I also don't think we should pray to any God or expect any help or intervention. I didn't want you to think I meant that!

I don't think we need to thank, worship, or praise any God whether it's animate or inanimate.

When I talk of atheists "believing" I mean just the fact that they believe there is no God. It would be impossible to prove that God doesn't exist in any form, so it's a belief. Right? I don't mean it's a belief in the same sense of religious belief at all.

well yes, it is a leap of faith because you can't prove it with 100% certainty, but then science is all about lending evidence to theories and even the law of gravity is only called such because we have not seen an instence in which it was false but nothing can be known with 100% certainty because we can't test every possible situation.  Therefore I would qualify the "Law of Atheism" under the same idea that it's something that is believed as 100% true because there is no evidence to the contrary