Re: The logic of atheism

On 24 Mar 2006 08:21:51 -0800, "Paul Holbach"
<paulholbachDELETETHENAME@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ron Peterson wrote:
Paul Holbach wrote:

Put simply, materialism is the view that everything is entirely
composed of matter.

That's a simplistic view.

Well, that's the core of materialism:

"Basically the view that everything is made of matter."

["Materialism". In T. Honderich (Ed.), /The Oxford companion to
philosophy/. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995.]

Except of course that most atheists aren't a priori materialists - any
materialism is consequential and incidental, not philosophical.

The atheist must affirm the negation of what is affirmed by the theist.

That's only if you assume that the purpose of the atheist is counter
the arguments of the theist.

Anybody who doesn't affirm the negation of what the theists affirm is
not an atheist -- for obvious reasons.

Only if you are so ignorant you still imagine that the world revolves
around doctrinal presumptions which have no relecance outside the
religion.

Why do you lie to our faces about ourselves, especially when you have
already been corrected several times?

All it takes to be atheist, is not being theist.

It's about not being a member of that class of people known as
theists.

Why do you imagine theist-specific presumptions from inside their
religion apply outside it?

Even the word "God" means different things inside and outside their
religion. In the real world it is the name given to a particular
object of belief from one of the hundreds of different religions.

It's a belief not a thing that coud or could not exist.
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