"no religion, it usually means no atheism as well"

[Willamena]

My dictionary states "default ...a failure to fulfill an obligation or to appear", so yes, I would agree that if the gods don't show up, no belief in gods would be required. And there must have been thousands of years of evolution before the awareness of, or creation of, in my opinion, of deities in the minds of humans took place.

Mine says, "default... A preselected option adopted by a... mechanism when no alternative is specified..."

What you're suggesting is that the option to disbelieve in gods was preselected by... some... means. I reject that.

I don't believe in Fate.

 

[Milton Platt]

Mine says, "default... A preselected option adopted by a... mechanism when no alternative is specified..."

What you're suggesting is that the option to disbelieve in gods was preselected by... some... means. I reject that.

I don't believe in Fate.

The default should be to not believe in a claim that has not been substantiated. How is that a problem? Why should one take every claim to be truthful until proven otherwise?

 

[Milton Platt]

We are not discussing the word "default" but the term "default position" , please give ones own understanding of the term instead of from a lexicon.
Right, please?

Regards

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"A default position is the standard setting or usual pattern / behavior."

He did not use a lexicon, he used a dictionary. One cannot understand the term "default position without understanding the definition of "default"

 

[Milton Platt]

I love Atheists but Atheism is wrong unless it provides evidences of its correctness.
Regards

That's a stupid statement. One does not have to prove one does not believe in something.

 

[Willamena]

The default should be to not believe in a claim that has not been substantiated. How is that a problem? Why should one take every claim to be truthful until proven otherwise?

It's not a problem.

 

[viole]

We see here so often an assertion from Atheism people that it is not a religion. Isn't one wrong here, please?

Regards

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Post #27

If atheism is a religion, then abstinence is a sexual position.

Ciao

- viole