GameOver22 on 17 December 2012
| Jay520 said: @GameOver I'm not really interested in debating who's definition of atheism is valid, or what atheism should mean. Such a debate would get us nowhere. I've giving you a bit of information and you can do some more research on your own to see what makes sense to you. But I personally can't convince you to change your mind. You're going to have your own feelings on what atheism should be defined as, and that's fine. As long as you recognize that a great deal of self-proclaimed atheists are different then you're own definition of atheist, which it appears you do, then I'm satisfied. I think whenever people come to a difference in definitions, the terms should be discarded completely as it detracts from the matter at hand - discussing who's position is actually valid. Which can be done more easily by explicitly stating one's position as opposed to having a long drawn out debate on what a person should be labelled as. It's not worth the time and energy when we can each more accurately state what we really do believe and don't believe. |
Fair enough....but definition debates are fun....granted they are a bit pedantic : )
