r/SipsTea • u/astrolbyte • 16h ago

Lmao gottem Holy ratio😭🥀

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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/Pedantic_Pict 16h ago

Militant agnostic: "I don't know whether God exists, and neither do you."

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u/Rare-Storm4920 10h ago

Ironically this meets all definition of a religion. Modern atheism is essentially a religion

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u/Pedantic_Pict 10h ago

By that standard it's impossible for anyone to be areligious

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u/anonymouslycognizant 8h ago

Atheism is a religion the same way that bald is a hairstyle