Re: ATHEISM - A Side-Effect of Religious Stupidity

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> "DanielSan" <danielsan1977@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > SongBookz wrote:
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> > Except, atheism does no such thing.  Atheism is simply, and I'll say
it 
> > again in hopes it'll sink in, lack of belief in deities.  Anything
else --  
> > anything at all -- is not part of atheism.  Atheists themselves may 
> > subscribe to various other doctrines (humanism, zen, etc), but it is a

> > property of THEM, not a property of ATHEISM.
> >
> > Get it?
> >
> 
> Yes, I get it - since as you say, atheism does not believe that no god 
> caused the universe, then what remains is atheists believe that one or
more 
> god(s) caused the universe 

The modern meaning of atheism, held by most of those who call themselves 
atheists, particularly in the US, is wide enough to include agnostics, 
who neither accept nor reject claims of the existence of gods but plead 
ignorance on the issue of the existence of gods.

While such agnostics often lean a bit more towards the more decided 
forms of atheism than towards any form of theism, they are largely 
neutral on the issue.