Re: questions for atheists
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I find his implications interesting. He's saying that Christians are really Atheists. They truly "believe" that Zeus doesn't, and never did, really exist.
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If you define "atheist" to mean "someone who actively believes that some arbitrary deity does not exist". "Atheist" is a more meaningful term if it is defined to mean "someone who believes that no creator exists".
His arguement merely claims that nearly all theists are also atheists. Since these are merely labels, this is just semantics. Using his definitions just makes it harder for us to communicate, it is not some profound point. We already knew that rationalists and theists were disjoint sets of people, no?
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