Atheism (Agnosticism)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, August 22, 2008, 21:47 (5719 days ago) @ dhw

Discussions of "atheism" cause me increasing irritation. I'm with Sam Harris in thinking that it is an unhelpful term. I'm a rationalist, and that leads me to the conclusion that most of the many types of "god" espoused by the many types of theists have no reality. So I suppose am an "atheist" in respect of those concepts. - Questions of soul and survival after death are a separate question aren't they? There also I find the evidence unpersuasive. Does that make me an "asoulist" or "antimetempsychosist" or something? - Questions of whether there is something beyond the physical universe are philosophical or metaphysical questions that are also not necessarily connected to belief in gods, and turn largely on what you mean by "physical" and "universe" and "beyond" and "something".