re atheist i dbstu rz tu bs de benedikt rosenau writes in article ii i b w w mantis co uk tony lezard tony mantis co uk writes deletion my opinion is that the strong atheist position requires too much belief for me to be comfortable with any strong atheists out there care to comment humans just come up with the idea of a spiritual parent it is one of the artifacts of human thought the evidence for that is quite overwhelming and the information content of the conceived is vanishing in other words if there were gods they would hardly make sense and it is possible to explain the phenomenon of religion without gods the concept is useless and i don t have to introduce new assumptions in order to show that no leap of faith required for me your mileage may vary yes i fully agree with that but is it i don t believe gods exist or i believe no gods exist as mandtbacka finabo abo fi mats andtbacka pointed out it all hinges on what you take the word believe to mean unfortunately this is bound up in the definitions of strong and weak atheism at least according to the faq atheism is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of god some atheists go further and believe that god does not exist the former is often referred to as the weak atheist position and the latter as strong atheism it is important to note the difference between these two positions weak atheism is simple scepticism disbelief in the existence of god strong atheism is a positive belief that god does not exist please do not fall into the trap of assuming that all atheists are strong atheists from mathew s an introduction to atheism version last modified apr should the faq be clarified to try to pin down this notion of belief can it tony lezard is tony mantis co uk or tony mantis co uk uknet ac uk or things like tony uk co mantis uk ac nsfnet relay or last resort arl phx cam ac uk pgp public key available on request
