Review 2 (General)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 23:22 (5673 days ago) @ Mark

Mark is right when he says there is no "must" for atheists. This is because atheism is not a philosophy. There are all sorts of atheists who believe all sorts of things and can have all sorts of morals or ethics. Atheism is simply non-belief in claims about gods. I arrive at my atheistic view because I am a rationalist empiricist or secular humanist. Any ethical views I have are derived from these philosophical bases not from my atheism. - Mark wrote about "the rejection of God". But this is not atheism, it is anti-religion, since it assumes there is some meaning to "God" that can be rejected. My atheism knows nothing about there being "a God" in any meaningful sense because there is no evidence for such an entity. You can only reject something if you have first accepted it.