Curious George
Veteran Member
Would you like to understand how it is a worldview?
Start from atheism, whatever you determine that to be. Assuming you are using the broadest view of lack of belief, ask yourself what that lack of belief entails. For instance, lack of belief in a creator entails lack of belief in intelligent design. Now think about what form of atheism is part of your understanding. What does that entail. Following these lines of reasoning describes much more than just one simple fact. So, we can understand, a priori, that your view, whatever it may be is actually a set of beliefs. This is what is being referred to as "the atheist's worldview." The OP is suggesting that one of those entailments is a lack of meaning. Then saying meaningless= absurd. Then, equivocating absurd as meaningless to imply absurd as in preposterous or ridiculous, which he defends by saying meaningless= absurd which was one of the premises thus begging the question.
It reads:
All atheism entails meaninglessness
Meaninglessness is absurdity
All atheism entails absurdity.
It is bad logic.
But the idea that atheism is not a worldview is also bad logic.
A worldview is a particular conception of the world.
Atheism only addresses one aspect of the world.
Atheism cannot be a particular conception of the world.
Here we see a jump in logic and a questionable premise. The jump in logic is the assumption that one aspect of the world cannot be distinguished as a particular conception. The questionable premise is that atheism only addresses one aspect of the world. What is one aspect? I could easily say that creation is one aspect, revelation is another aspect, and afterlife is yet another aspect. And atheism deals with all of these, regardless of the type.
