Subject: Re: Please take this opportunity to remember
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 03:00:11 UTC, Bill Vanek wrote:
> >Why can't you just accept atheism for what it actually is?
> >
> >I'll try the wiki link -
> >
> >Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.[1][2][3][4]
Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist.[5][6] In an even narrower
sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.[1][2][7][8] Atheism is
contrasted with theism,[9][10] which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one
deity exists.[10][11][12]
> >
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
>
> Why can't you just reread what I wrote,
"Progressivism certainly worships government, and religion and God are enemies of totalitarian
rulers, so it's not terribly far off to say that Progressives are all atheists."
> and your reply, and then explain to me what this post has to do with anything I wrote?
I've always known you to say that atheists are people who believe (assert) that there is "no God",
which is false, or, at best, the narrowest definition from above.
I hadn't realised (until recently) the extent to which you've interwoven it with politics. Can you
get anything right about what atheism actually is?