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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Crystals are not intelligent.
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And not everybody that has a moustache is Hitler. So?
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Originally Posted by Flint
The fallacy of Atheism, to me, is that it only seeks to disprove God as is defined by an external source...
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
That's not a fallacy, it's a structural necessity.
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So...do you mean that "Atheism" consists of: not believing in a diety
as defined by organized religions? Isn't that just disagreeing with
a definition?
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
You being Afooist is completely dependant on my definition of Fooism. That's not a fallacy on your part. You didn't change any of your views, but suddenly you get this label!
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Nobody should just "get the label" of Atheist, you should decide to call yourself that. And, I propose that holding
other people's beliefs as the source of your personal identity is sort of...odd. Saying I don't believe in something, which I provide the definition for, is one thing. But saying I don't believe in something that is
exactly as these other people describe...well... it's kind of like making a rebellious statement, isn't it? Your whole identity, in that case, is defined externally. It looks like that would take you out of the driver's seat
of your own life. Am I misunderstanding what Atheist means?