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Conducting a simple atheist study, need un minuto of your time.

Please answer just this one question (I need hard data.)

atheism is:

A. the disbelief of gods
B. the belief that there are no gods
C. Other (explain.)

Please pass this on to other atheists and give them my email. I'd like to be as thorough as possible here.

Thanks,

Dave Harty

tastypaper@gmail.com

Tags: atheism, atheist, definition

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Permalink Reply by JF on January 21, 2012 at 1:44am

A. the disbelief of gods

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Permalink Reply by The Doctor on January 21, 2012 at 2:04am

A) I'm fairly certain this will be almost unanimous

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Permalink Reply by La Gaya Sienza on January 21, 2012 at 3:52am

(A): Lack of belief in gods.

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Permalink Reply by Tenken on January 21, 2012 at 11:49am

Revised A ("lack of belief in deities")

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Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on January 21, 2012 at 12:04pm

Revised A

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Permalink Reply by Idaho Spud on January 21, 2012 at 1:49pm

Since I left religion, the word "belief" and "disbelief" bothers me as they sound like the acceptance or non-acceptance of something without evidence. I now say I don't believe anything. I accept what science has evidence for.

Because of that, I'm not going to choose between A and B. As to the official meaning I will say C: Without God.

However, personally, I say C: I'm almost certain there are no Gods, and live my life not worrying about it.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Fleming on January 21, 2012 at 4:49pm

A: But revised to lack of belief in ANY god.

The religious tend to make semantic arguments regarding "Belief" and "Disbelief". So I try to stay away from them.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel B on January 21, 2012 at 7:26pm

A. I think "disbelief" is the same as "lack of belief", but the latter is more clear. Correct?

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Permalink Reply by The Doubter on January 21, 2012 at 7:35pm

If I had to choose, then revised meaning A.

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Ford on January 23, 2012 at 10:11pm

Revised A

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Permalink Reply by Minda Slade on January 25, 2012 at 11:00pm

belief that there are no gods except PHYSICS

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Permalink Reply by Raving Hillbilly on July 5, 2012 at 10:19am

B. The belief that there are no gods.

Comment: A is of course more passive and goes toward the agnostic. However, some qualifier is always essential even with the more definitive answer. I am certain that the gods invented by the human race are impossible self contradictory notions. In other words they do not pass any proof test and for the most part are provable absurdities. I do believe that a more powerful and intelligent life form likely does exist. However this is not a supernatural conceptions but merely a reasonable hypothesis based on the extent and variability of the universe. Some might call such a life form "god". I would not.