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Elioenai26
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No. Atheists lack a belief in deities. That's it. One more time:
Atheists lack a belief in deities.
Every definition of atheism given to me by atheists in this forum up until today has been, word for word, the one I used in my apologia.
Now if the one you have given me now is different than the one I used, why have you changed it?
There may be individuals that say that their lack belief in deities is warranted. You would then need a qualifier in labeling them; agnostic, ignostic, gnostic, etc.
Every view you listed is treated in the apologia.
In no way would this make atheism "false", or even "wrong". If Christianity were true (which begs the question - which particular flavour?), then only those that say 'there are no deities' would be wrong.
Of course it would prove it false. Remember in the apologia, we established that the opposite of true is false. If evidence can be shown to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that God exists, which is the purpose of this series of works, then any view which maintains a position opposite of this is false.
The trouble atheists find themselves in is that they want to be atheists but they don't want the burden of proof placed on them to have to defend a positive claim, so they shirk the responsibility by attempting to take a neutral position. This is fine but most atheists here in their beliefs and statements are actually behaving more like agnostics than the traditional atheist.
It was Karl Marx that once said that an agnostic was simply a gutless atheist. He seemed to be speaking with a sense of disgust for agnostics but he may have been closer to the truth than many would like to admit.
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