Archive for May 23rd, 2008
Debating Belief And Its Relation To Atheism
I apologise for my inactivity on the blog after my somewhat less spectacular return from exams, but when one is confined to a bed for 2 days with a fever, headaches, and completely delirious (suffice to say I did *not* start believing in God) then one’s mind isn’t prone to considering writing a blog post, let alone trying to use a computer…
However, as I recovered I spent some more time on facebook, and got into a rather interesting debate about atheism as a belief. I used to be of the thinking that atheism was not a belief, but rather a “disbelief”, however it took a few well informed atheist commentators of this blog to change my mind.
Realising that belief in no gods and dis-belief (or non-belief) in gods are exactly the same things is quite a confusing thing to get your head around at first, but it is important when considering philosophical questions. The idea that the statements “I do not believe there are Gods” and “I believe there are no Gods” are exactly the same makes so much more sense than trying to convince yourself otherwise.
However as the debate continues, the two sides are still at disagreement, although my opponent is a fabulous person to debate against. I thought instead of taxing my still recovering brain to write a post concerning the entire topic, I’d see what everyone thought at first. A simple yes or no poll:
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