Do theists ever doubt their atheism?

Discussion in 'Religion Archives' started by StrangerInAStrangeLand, Dec 14, 2008.

  1. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    How many gods do you believe in? How many gods do you believe don't exist?
    Do you believe in Odin, Thor, Zeus, Hera, Jupiter, Juno, Isis, Astara, IPU, Quetzalcoatl & the Great Wolf Spirit? If not, do you ever doubt your lack of belief in them or many others?
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  3. draqon Banned Banned

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    why should they? Behind a belief in every God is the action the believer takes, behind every action is the belief's ideology.

    It does not matter what God they follow, what does matter is the actions that come out of their beliefs, social actions towards others.
     
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  5. PsychoticEpisode It is very dry in here today Valued Senior Member

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    And to that end, god isn't necessary.

    Only a matter of time before that list is increased.
     
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  7. draqon Banned Banned

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    you are wrong, to some God and belief in God gives comfort and guidance for them and thus allows them to act appropriately towards others.
     
  8. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    So its ok to be wrong as long as you feel good about it?
     
  9. Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    Not believing in various gods but believing in one doesn't make them "atheist towards those other ones".
    That's a retarded notion.

    atheism = lack of belief in (any) deity. Period.
    theism = belief in (any) deity. Period.
     
  10. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Your last 2 lines are accurate but your 1st isn't.
    An atheist is anyone who lacks belief in any god(s) but in your phrase "atheist towards those other ones", "towards those other ones" modifies the word atheist & is a valid discussion topic. Which is what this thread is about. Not believing in various gods does indeed make a person atheist toward those gods.
    Why do people believe in 1 yet not others? Why are they confident, if they actually are confident, that they believe in the right one(s)?
    Do they ever doubt their atheism regarding the ones they don't believe in?
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  11. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    what is your understanding of the word "godhead"?
    what about "henology"?
     
  12. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I have it easy. There is only one God.
     
  13. Warrior61 I saw the Light Registered Senior Member

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    It all hangs on the definition of God. None of those gods hold up to the popular definition of God. So with your understanding of atheism and theism then your question is valid, or at least in my opinion. So to answer your question I don't doubt my lack of belief in them. I have contemplated them, but never doubted my disbelief., or at least to my memory.

    His son,

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  14. Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    My point is: if they believe in ANY deity, they are not an atheist. By definition.
    There's no "regarding the other ones". Any belief in deity is theism.

    Now, within theism there are different conceptions; monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, etc.
    But they are all theism.
     
  15. scorpius a realist Valued Senior Member

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    something a Jesus would give to his disciples?

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  16. Saquist Banned Banned

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    Only one god.
    Have I ever doubted: Yes
    But only if a god exist not if I've got the right one.
     
  17. Michael 歌舞伎 Valued Senior Member

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    :jawdrop:
    :roflmao:

    :cheers:
     
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  18. swivel Sci-Fi Author Valued Senior Member

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    Nobody get their morality from their god.
     
  19. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I've never contradicted that. Some people are clueless and having a fairytale to believe in gives them a sense of direction. Would that that were all there is to it!

    My disrespect for religion (at least the Abrahamic ones that we're acquainted with in the West) is based on the fact that a large number of members of those religions lose their sense of direction every few generations. During that lapse they commit acts of such unforgivable horror that it completely outweighs the order and structure it has brought to the lives of their ancestors and will bring to their descendants.

    I'd rather have hundreds of thousands of depressed, godless people on welfare because they can't find their sense of direction, than have tens of millions of them rise up every 150 years or so and commit genocide, or at least try to and come very close to succeeding, in the name of their god.
     
  20. laladopi time for change. Registered Senior Member

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    stereotyping much?
     
  21. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    You don't have a point & you're missing mine.
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  22. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Maybe I should have put etc at the end of that list but the rest of the OP made things clear enough.
    There's also the Christian god, the Muslim god & the Jewish god.
    NO. They are NOT the same.
    And there have been others believed to be omnipotent creators of everything.
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  23. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    so you agree that omnipotence is a quality of god?
     

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