Atheists & Agnostics

muriel_volestrangler

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17. I'm not sure what you mean by "an opposition to all the belief systems they reject"

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 09:14 AM

Dec 2024

so I'm not sure how you see atheists. You obviously see it as more than the rejection of a personification of some supernatural deity, since that's your own position.

What do you see as the "opposite" of a supernatural deity, but which you also reject?

I'm not sure what your final question is useful for. We do have a world in which many people have the concept of deities. Imagining a world that has never had that involves going back 50,000 years or more, when we basically know nothing about the "culture" they had. This is good for imaginative fiction, but not much help to anyone for what we should think in the real world we live in.

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