Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:10:57 +1100

Quentin Anciaux writes:

>Le Mercredi 4 Janvier 2006 19:21, Brent Meeker a écrit :
>
> > Theism is the belief that the world was created by a single omnipotent,
> > superhuman agent who cares about human behavoir and intervenes in
>worldly
> > events.
> >
> > Is that your theory??
> >
> > Brent Meeker
> > Atheism is not a religion, just as a vacant lot is not a type of
> > building, and health is not a form of sickness. Atheism is not a
> > religion.
> > --- Jim Heldberg, San Francisco Atheist Coordinator
>
>Atheïsm is a religion as I would say any metaphysical theories... (which
>are
>only set of beliefs... if not they are falsifiable and enter the realm of
>"physical" theories/science.
>
>Atheism is not science in that it is not falsifiable... Atheïsm is composed
>of
>dogma "negation of the existence of any god/suprem being" and is a set of
>beliefs and as such fit well in the religion category.

Atheism means, from the Greek, "without God" or "without a belief in God".
It is like saying you don't believe in fairies, or Santa Claus. Of course,
Santa Claus may well live at the North Pole, and hide whenever anyone goes
there to look: no reasonable person could deny that, but no reasonable
person would entertain it as a real possibility, either.

Stathis Papaioannou

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