Desert Snake
Veteran Member
/from another thread
Assuming atheists don't change to another faith very often, why is this?
Assuming atheists don't change to another faith very often, why is this?
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Why don't atheists change faiths very often?
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Kelly of the Phoenix
Well-Known Member
Why would they?
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Kelly of the Phoenix
Well-Known Member
They don't see evidence in any gods, so at what point would that change?
The Holy Bottom Burp
Active Member
I'm not sure what 'other thread' you are referring to, but is this a long way of saying "atheism is a faith as well"? If so, disagree mate, got to have something to put my faith in first!
The Holy Bottom Burp
Active Member
Damn, you beat me to it!
PatrickLeo
Member
Science is our religion
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Atheists change faiths. He he. .
Lol that's a good one.
Lol that's a good one.
Faith is believing without reason. Faith cannot possibly be a path to truth, since any idea or its polar opposite are equally (in)defensible if all one needs to believe such an idea is faith in it.
Ricktheheretic
"Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law"
There are actually atheist "faiths," if that means creeds or religions. Some people are agnostic and atheist because they lack belief in a higher power. Some people are hardcore atheists and have a deep conviction that there is no god. There are atheists who believe in supernatural entities like demigods or demons but don't believe in a higher power or anything that can be called a "god." There are atheists with pantheistic tendencies, they feel that the higher power is all or is nature and not separate from creation. There are Positivists and Secular Humanists who profess a creed based on reason and finding a meaning in life through service to other people and consequentialist reason-based ethics. There are Laveyan Satanists who profess to be their own gods and take the Crowleyian dictum "do what thou will" literally, some of them believe in demons or supernatural entities but they don't consider them gods. There is the White Supremacist World Church of the Creator or Creativity Movement that profess worship of the white "master" race (the Creator of all real culture and civilization) to be their religion. There are also atheists who profess ideologies that border on a religion like Rand Objectivism or Marxism.
One reason is that many people mistake theism for a prerequisite of faith or of religion. So atheists end up presuming that there is nothing in there for them.
A closely related reason is that people often seek (and switch) creeds for reasons that do, in fact, hold little sway over atheists. The faiths that actually demand theism are quite few, but very widespread (albeit for often very misguided reasons).
It has already been well established that @syncretic spreads a rather distorted - fictional even, way beyond satyrical - description of atheism and of atheists, so I don't even comment much on it anymore.
Every religious person started out as an atheist.
Looncall
Well-Known Member
Having so far avoided being taken in by ancient scams, they prefer to keep it that way.
To be fair, "atheist" does not necessarily imply "reasonable."
Atheists reject religion and faith. We leave that to the theists.
I've heard of some former atheists who became believers, and vice versa.
I've known many more believers who seemingly change their religion every so often. That's probably even more baffling, when you think about it.
A Vestigial Mote
Well-Known Member
Speak for yourself.