Questions tagged [atheism]
Atheism is (in a broad sense) a skeptic attitude towards the belief in deities. In a narrower sense, atheism rejects the existence of deities at all.
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If you believe that our reality is some kind of reflection, what should be your label? Atheist? Nonbeliever? Agnostic?
If you believe in the external presence (God), but you are not religious in a conventional way. You believe in destiny, guidance from above, the afterlife, but you don't believe that Jesus Christ or ...
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What are theistic responses to Graham Oppy's argument for atheism from naturalism?
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I'm specifically referring to Graham Oppy's paper An Argument for Atheism from Naturalism:
Abstract This paper outlines an argument for atheism from naturalism that I have developed in ...
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Does it matter if certain professions have a lower rate of theism, and if so, why does it matter?
Many of us are familiar with discussions bringing up the correlation with religion and IQ, or educational achievement, or being a professional in a certain field like physics or biology. These are ...
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Can atheism be considered as cult [closed]
I had recently conversation trying to understand if atheism is religion.
However best argument I had - is that lack of belief into something isn’t theology - and it seems fare to me.
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Is atheism religion with all attributes? [closed]
To people who are believers, that science proved that God doesn’t exists, I want to remind that science tell that consciousness doesn’t exist too, however obviously consciousness exists.
I guess ...
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Is there an evil god?
Bertrand Russell writes in his Why I Am Not a Christian that one could easily "take up the line that some of the gnostics took up—a line which I often thought was a very plausible one—that as a ...
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How to not fear the supernatural? [closed]
I have post-traumatic stress disorder. Like many so afflicted, I interpreted the trauma as a form of punishment. I’m not religious, but my mind spontaneously invented an idiosyncratic deity in the ...
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Can you apply Hume's fork to agnosticism?
Can you apply Hume's fork to agnosticism, as an argument for atheism?
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It's not contained in the premise of existence, else we would all be theists. But then you cannot inductively argue for God, ...
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Is atheism a proposition?
Theism proposes the existence of God. Atheism makes no proposition, it is simply the absence of a belief in God. Theism is the proposition. Atheism is the negation. The negation is not a proposition. ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
I have watched many debates on the question of God's existence, and I have noticed that when the monotheist is asked to prove God's existence and they have arguments for God's existence and arguments ...
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Is there a version of the divine-hiddenness problem based specifically on the cognitive side of schizophrenia treatment?
Although to my knowledge mystical psychosis "by itself" is not a DSM listing, it is similar to symptoms of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, symptoms like delusions of reference and grandeur ...
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How does a necessary being fully explain contingent beings?
X contingent <=> there is W s.t. W -> S, where "->" is derivation, not material implication
X necessary <=> X not contingent
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Can one assert a mysterious, naturalistic explanation to undercut all god arguments?
I had been pondering this for a while and was wondering if there is any literature on the idea of undercutting all possible god hypotheses through the following trick (instead of simply saying that ...
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Is atheism a belief system? [duplicate]
I do not believe in God. This is not a belief. I have seen the assertion that atheism is a belief system, but no evidence. Is this an unsubstantiated assertion by theists, or is there any ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
In conversations and debates between atheists and theists, is it enough for the atheist to assert that they are skeptical of theism without providing justification, or does the atheist bear the burden ...
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