Patrick Elliott <kag### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> http://yearwithoutgod.com/2014/01/02/am-i-doing-it-wrong

It seems to be a lost battle to try to explain to people that "atheism"
is not a movement, a world view, a set of dogmas, or anything, really.

The words theism and atheism deal with one question, and one question
only: Do you believe in the existence of a god? If you do have such a
belief, then you are a theist, else you are an atheist. What other views
you have is completely inconsequential.

If you want to "try atheism", you could just as well become a Raelian
or a Buddhist. They don't believe in a god, so they are, by definition,
atheists. You can, in fact, believe in all kinds of supernatural hocus
pocus, spirits, the afterlife, psychic powers of the brain, the unicorns
of Atlantis... and still be an atheist, if you don't believe in a god.
The term does not imply anything beyond that one single question.

I'd even go so far as to say that theism isn't a world view either,
and for the exact same reason: It deals with the same question and does
not imply anything else beyond that.

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                                                          - Warp

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