I don't need the word faith to make my point. Let's call believing in an unproven or unprovable concept "raymond."
Atheists are people who have raymond that there is no god, just like religious people have raymond that there is a god.
Faith is a subset of the total set of all raymonds.
Atheists are people who have raymond that there is no god, just like religious people have raymond that there is a god.
Faith is a subset of the total set of all raymonds.
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For me, faith is having belief in something without good or sufficient evidence.
To lack a belief in a god does not require faith, because no good evidence has been presented.
Atheists don’t believe a god exists. Thats different from believing no gods exist. Many gods can be disproven.
"I don't believe X" is not the same statement as "I believe not X".
"Not guilty" =/= "Innocent".
I, as an atheist, find God not guilty of existing. I may even have a positive belief in his innocence.
But to be an atheist, I only have to find God not guilty. I have no belief that he his guilty of existing.
knowledge. Atheism/theism is about belief. Im an agnostic atheist. I don’t believe a god exists, and dont claim to have knowledge of one existing. Most atheists fall into this category