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Our reasoning is different, but their heart is in the right place (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 5 months ago by Ragdoll_X to c/atheistmemes

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

This isn't equivalent.

This person believes in a god that is evil or malevolent.

Atheists argue that there is no god that is either good or evil

I don't believe there is a good god nor do I believe there is a bad god ... or a child god, or an intelligent god or a dumb god.

I just don't believe there is any god

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

Atheists argue that there is no god that is either good or evil

Depends on the flavor of atheist, in my experience. I'm an atheist, but I've never argued that there is no god, because how the hell would I know that?

Some use the term "agnostic atheist" to describe this kind of atheist, but I'm of the mind that it doesn't need the qualifier "agnostic" since atheism is simply lacking a faith in any god, in contrast to antitheism, which is the active belief that there is no god. Antitheism is, ironically, a belief system rather than the lack of one.

[–] maniclucky 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Pedantically, agnostic atheism means that you don't assert you know there isn't a god ("I don't believe there's a god") vs gnostic atheism having a positive assertion there definitely isn't one ("There is no god", usually followed by some logical argument).

Antitheism is the position that theism should be opposed, not what you described and it's a philosophical position (which could be argued is a type of belief but that's straying from the topic).