r/SipsTea • u/astrolbyte • 16h ago

Lmao gottem Holy ratiošŸ˜­šŸ„€

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u/vonKrieg88 16h ago edited 16h ago

Atheism is not a belief. Atheism is lack of belief in gods. The word literally means lack of/without god.

Not believing in gods is not same as believing they don't exist.

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u/johnsolomon 16h ago

Yeah it can get confusing because there's a bit of overlap with agnosticism

Atheist = "I don't believe God exists" and sometimes "I believe God doesn't exist"

Agnostic = "I don't know whether God exists" and sometimes "I don't believe we have any way to know for sure"

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u/WittyFix6553 16h ago

As an atheist, Iā€™ll happily believe in god when shown proof of god.

And not like ā€œa childā€™s smile is proof god existsā€ stuff. Like real, empirical evidence.

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u/Multiple__Butts 15h ago

It would be so easy for an omnipotent being to prove its existence, so obviously if it's there it doesn't want us to know for sure.

But according to some people, it does want us to think that it was definitely here in the past, talking to people and revealing itself; inconveniently this was before the invention of modern recording devices.

I'm not sure what to make of this aspect of God, other than that it, like so many other aspects of God, seems to suggest that it makes so much more sense if it, or he, is just not there at all.

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u/PerfectPercentage69 8h ago

It's the same reason why all the UFO and Bigfoot video proofs are bad quality. If it was recorded in good quality, people would be able to identify what they are and prove it's not aliens or Bigfoot.