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Ads by Google weak atheism strong atheism Pan atheism state atheism negative atheism      Atheists Anonymous - Atheism Defended Atheism and agnosticism seem to be as old as God. Negative atheism rests on the rejection of specific theistic beliefs; thus atheists through the ages have rejected the Greek and Norse pantheons, the afterlife, the divinity of Jesus, and the very existence of God. Negative atheism is the easier sort to overcome in favour of religious belief. http://kenneth.moyle.com/aa/atheism1.htm      Atheism Negative atheists attempt to establish their position by refuting typical theist arguments for the existence of God, such as the argument from first cause, the argument from design, the ontological argument, and the argument from religious experience. Atheism, the denial of or lack of belief in the existence of a god or gods. Atheism has sometimes been associated with the philosophical ideas of materialism, which holds that only matter exists; communism, which asserts that religion impedes human progress; and rationalism, which emphasizes analytic reasoning over other sources of knowledge. http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/martin.htm      Weak atheism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The difference between "strong" and "weak" atheism might be summed up as follows: strong atheism is the "assertion" that there are no gods, while weak atheism is the "lack" of belief in gods. Weak atheism differs from strong atheism, in which the atheist makes the positive assertion that there are no gods (or that specific gods do not exist), and Many 'Strong' Atheists would claim that they are 'strongly' atheistic towards gods with self-contradictory properties, or gods for which the evidence against is too strong, and 'weakly' atheistic towards all other gods - those they do not know about, for example. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_atheism      Atheism negative? Atheism is the lack of belief in any gods. Atheism may be due to lack of knowledge of any god ideas. I was brought up as Protestant - Presbyterian/Brethern and almost as soon as I was able to understand language was taught that every word in the Bible was literally true. http://www.geocities.com/marcusral/nihilism.htm      Defining Atheism Atheism as the absence of belief can denote an "ism" -- a state of mind in which theistic belief is absent. Scriven concedes that the existence of a god cannot be directly disproved, but belief in such a being can be shown to be wholly unfounded, and this is sufficient grounds for atheism. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God. http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/smithdef.htm      Atheism :: Online Encyclopedia :: Information Genius The term atheism is formed of the Greek prefix a- (meaning "without" or "not") and the Greek-derived theism, meaning a belief in a god or gods. Atheism is not synonymous with irreligion ; the idea of an eternal non-created universe is an important concept in some religions and as such it is possible to be very religious and very atheistic. Many cultures have also called anybody who did not believe in their particular brand of Religion an atheist; for example atheism was a frequent accusation of the pagan Romans against the early Christians. http://www.informationgenius.com/encyclopedia/a/at/atheism.html      Positive Atheism and The Meaninglessness of Theism Atheism in Faith and Philosophy saw "a perplexing implication" of my position: if I am correct in the first part of the book, the second part of the book is meaningless. Either belief in God is unjustified or disbelief in God is justified. Atheism that I regarded the meaningless argument as subject to more doubts than other arguments and that it was therefore unwise for atheists to rest their case solely on it. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/meaningless.html      Encyclopedia: Atheism Atheism is the position of being without belief in any gods. Weak atheism, or negative atheism, is the standpoint that there is no reason to believe that any particular god exists. Some critics of strong atheism contend that atheism requires faith because it is impossible to prove a negative in this case; an assertion that there are no gods requires a god-like omniscience so as to be certain that there are not any gods hiding anywhere in the universe. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/atheism      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Atheism For the common basis of all systems of theism as well as the cardinal tenet of all popular religion at the present day is indubitably a belief in the existence of a personal God, and to deny this tenet is to invite the popular reproach of atheism. The most trenchant form which atheism could take would be the positive and dogmatic denial existence of any spiritual and extra-mundane First Cause. This is more correctly called, as it is described, godlessness in conduct, quite irrespective of any theory of philosophy, or morals, or of religious faith. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02040a.htm      ipedia.com: Weak atheism Article Weak atheism or negative atheism is the lack of belief in any gods without the conviction that no gods exist. Weak atheism is in contrast to strong atheism, in which the atheist makes the positive assertion that there are no gods, and theism, in which the theist asserts that there is at least one god of some kind. The difference between "strong" and "weak" atheism might be summed up as follows: strong atheism is the "belief" that there are no gods, while weak atheism is the "lack" of belief in god(s). http://fav.ipedia.com/ipedia/w/we/weak_atheism.html      Atheism, Agnosticism, and Burden of Proof Negative atheism is the position that one should not believe, not that one should disbelieve. There is also the more general term, "negative atheism," which refers only to the first part of that definition: that one can neither affirm nor deny God’s existence—for whatever reason. At the most literal level, atheism can be analyzed as follows: “a” means without, and “theism” means belief in God. http://www.freethoughtdebater.com/atheismvtheism.htm      Jesse's Internet Cage - Writings Negative atheists argue very simply "I do not believe believe in God." That is they withhold belief in a deity(ies). That is, I don't see any clear or overwhelming reason or evidence to suggest that a God does exist, but I also see no reason to deny the possibility of some sort of god actually existing. A "soft" agnostic would say, "I do not know whether there is a God," while a hard one would say that knowledge with respect to deities is impossible (Thus they're saying "I don't know and you don't either"). http://home.earthlink.net/~jessedurst/atheism.html      Amazon.com: Books: Atheism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Atheism is often considered to be a negative, dark, and pessimistic belief which is characterised by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion. Atheism as such is only opposed to the truth of religion; it does not entail hostility towards religious believers. Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism and show how a life without religious belief can be positive, meaningful, and moral. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192804243?v=glance      Encyclopedia4U - Negative atheism - Encyclopedia Article Negative atheism is the lack of belief in any gods without the convicion that no gods exist. Negative atheism is in contrast to "positive atheism", in which the atheist makes the positive assertion that there are no gods, and theism, in which the theist asserts that there is at least one god of some kind. The terms atheist and atheism is usually used to indicate "positive atheism". http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/n/negative-atheism.html      Is atheism viable? It is not believing in a god, or actively believing there is no God, or choosing to not exercise any belief or non-belief concerning God, etc. Which ever flavor is given to atheism, it is a negative position. There are no "proofs" that God does not exist in atheist circles; at least, none that I have heard -- especially since you can't prove a negative regarding God's existence. http://www.carm.org/atheism/viable.htm      Winter 2003,2004 - Volume 42 # 1 Theism is the belief (or one of the many beliefs) in god(s), and Atheism is the belief in no god(s). Theism is a belief in the sense that you must stand your theistic ground - must make the claim of the truth of your 'religious knowledge' - without the aid of solid evidence or logic; it is accepting something as true without confirming evidence or even in the face of disconfirming evidence. The Oxford World Encyclopedia goes so far as to declare that it is a "reasoned basis for the rejection of both Christianity and Atheism". http://www.americanatheist.org/win03-04/T1/eller.html      Jacques Maritain Center: JM 33/03 By negative atheism I mean a merely negative or destructive process of casting aside the idea of God, which is replaced only by a void. I do not pretend to dogmatize about them; the views that I shall offer are somewhat tentative views, which originate in a desire to took for the hidden spiritual significance of the present agony of the world. I mean the inconsistency presented by the fact that this casting aside of all religion is itself a religious phenomenon, and the inconsistency presented by the fact that this rejection of God -- of the true, transcendent God of nature -- is in actual existence an adoration of the false, immanent god of history. http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/jm3303.htm      Internet Infidels Discussion Forum: Is atheism irrational?? Atheism is about belief and agnosticism is about knowledge, and therefore, there are agnostic atheists and agnostic theists. Deductive arguments for positive atheism usually take advantage of an incompatibility between God's attributes; it's as if God were a square circle or a married bachelor. If it's not, here: note that, employing these meanings, 50-50 agnostics, unreflective people, and people that just don't care can be negative or weak atheists; positive or strong atheists, in contrast, have to be prepared to defend their belief in God's nonexistence. http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=50&t=000755      Introduction to the Atheist pages Atheism is not, in any possible sense of the word, a religion. Depending on the definition of the God in question, the atheist may be either "positive", "negative" or agnostic. They are just two among thousands of gods we don't believe in, there's nothing special about them from an atheist's point of view. http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/intro_page.htm      Review of Robin Le Poidevin's ARGUING FOR ATHEISM That is, atheism is taken to deny the existence of a god, especially a god that is supposed to be the creator of all things and to be omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good. As I see it materialism is a form of metaphysics which since the 17th century has been closely related to atheism. His book is probably less adequate as an introduction to the philosophy of religion, and it is even less adequate as an introduction to metaphysics. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/finngeir_hiorth/arguing.html      [No title] Atheism does not believe that man's mission on earth is to love and glorify God, but it does believe in living this life so that when you pass on, the world will be better for your having lived. ÐÏࡱá>þÿ  wy þÿÿÿvÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿì¥Áq ¿Ãmbjbjt+t+ .ºA A Ãiÿÿÿÿÿÿ]V V V V V V V &&&&& 2L&¨2 šžžžžž¶ Âmoooooo$Ú ô Îx“V ÊžžÊÊ“BV V žžšBBBÊnV žV žmj ^È ^V V V V ÊmBnB°MV V mž~Àî0µÆ &&8 eAtheism Joseph Lewis This address on Atheism was delivered at a Symposium on "Present Religious Tendencies", held at the Community Church, 34th Street and Park Avenue, New York City, on the Evening of April 20th, 1930. Some ministers of religion ignorantly call Atheism a negative philosophy because Atheism must first destroy the monumental ignorance and the degrading superstition with which religion, throughout the ages, has so shamelessly stultified the brain of man. A negative attitude in life is sometimes essential to proper conduct. http://ssevillano.free.fr/annexe_3/atheism_jl.doc      'Weak' And 'Strong' As Philosophical Terms James Spairana (Reply) (3-01) Therefore, "strong" atheism is the belief that the statements "A deity exists" and "Deities exist" are false statements, while "weak" atheism is the simple absence of a god belief for whatever reason (including having never heard a god claim). If you have a god belief (however vague), you are a theist; if you do not have a god belief (even if that's because you are still an infant), you are an atheist. "Weak" atheism says that there are two types of people: those who have a god belief and those who do not. http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9102.htm      Philosophy & Religion: Why does Atheism have a negative picture? Atheism is a belief system, the belief in not having to believe. Atheists are often branded as negative (have a re-look at the threads above) simply because they reject the commonly held views on the existence of god and in so doing reject all the associated religious practises that go with it. But Christians also take a negative view of other religions. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellaneous/Philosophy_Religion/Q_20703643.html      Response to criticism of "Is Atheism Viable" Atheism isn't a dogmatic religion like Christianity, atheists are allowed to do this. Since atheism is the position of "no God" either in belief or "lack of belief," and since there is no proof that God does not exist, then faith must make up the difference. Science has not shown that there is no God nor is there any logical proof (that I am aware of) that there is no God. http://www.carm.org/atheism/lonovyb.htm      Seven Common Misconceptions About Atheism In other words, the actual content of the beliefs of many who say they believe in God is probably tantamount to atheism or agnosticism. For people of good will however, perhaps atheism can be seen not as an exotic or extreme doctrine, but as a reasonable way to make it through this vale of tears called life. However, this figure is less helpful than it appears since it does not indicate what the respondents meant when they said they believed in "God." No doubt the vast majority understand by "God" the traditional, supernatural deity of orthodox Christianity or Judaism. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/keith_parsons/misconceptions.html      Invisible Pink Unicorn atheism as an alternative to other parody deities like Church of the SubGenius "J.R. Bob Dobbs" or Eris of the Discordianism. It has been specifically designed not to directly offend people that has theistic beliefs. If you choose to use the ipu logo in a prominent way on your site, then write to me on ta@invisiblepinkunicorn.com and I will list your site below. http://www.invisiblepinkunicorn.com      [No title] Negative atheism, the weak view, is the mere absence of belief in God (or any divine being - sometimes it serves as a synonym for naturalism). In the spirit of charity, we may be forced to acknowledge against the most reliable and broadest understanding of atheism to include mere deniers of belief in any god in our casual encounters and dialogues. It is the definitive view, the strong view, that God (or any god) does not exist. http://sguthrie.net/atheism_and_arg.htm      atheism (Philosophistry) There are plenty of what-if negative counter-arguments to religion. While I can live with "God" in the memespace, I "pray" that America might give me hope and stomach being accurate this time around. I mean, I ended my tenure as a Catholic when I discovered that religion was invented, not transmuted from the heavens." http://www.philosophistry.com/archives/atheism.html      atheism_theory One of the aspects of the atheism of Freud is that, to a certain extent it was a repetition of the ideas of people like Comte, according to which the evolution of the scientific spirit has replaced the need for religion or God. The gods were conceived as finite and material and yet, at the same time they neither asserted nor denied the existence of a purely spiritual god, an infinite God. Nietsche recognized that the rejection of Christian morality and religion is nihilistic and will have a certain chaotic or negative effect for humanity, but he saw this as a necessary phase in the striving for the super-man. http://www.catholic-church.org/church-unity/ateo_t_e.htm      Christianity.com - Atheism: The Double Negative Atheism comes from, literally, the Greek word a-, the negative; and theism, the word theos for god—negative God or there is no God. So to affirm an absolute negative is self-defeating, because what you are saying is, I have infinite knowledge in order to say to you, 'There is nobody within finite knowledge.' Atheism, as a system, is self-defeating. The only way I can affirm that is if I have unlimited knowledge of this universe. http://home.christianity.com/91823.html      IIDB - Theism or Atheism: McHugh vs Krueger This negative understanding of the divine nature seems to present us with a deity that is eminently more worthy of worship than is a being the essence of which can be encapsulated in one of our empirically derived positive concepts. There are other arguments for atheism, but my space in these debates is limited, and I believe that those I have presented can demonstrate that we can be justified in believing that there is no god. In the course of this debate, I will offer arguments both for the truth of atheism and rebuttals to arguments for the truth of theism. http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47897      Atheism and pantheism: religious atheism Pantheists don't just want to be negative about Gods and heavens beyond this world. In other words, pantheism does not believe in the type of God that atheism attacks any more than atheism itself does. The only real difference is that pantheists have strong feelings of reverence, awe, love and sense of belonging to nature and the universe, and they wish to express those feelings through meditation, ceremony, and ethical action. http://members.aol.com/pantheism0/atheists.htm      religion is dumb Similarly, the Islamic theist who makes the positive existential claim that the Islamic god exists is implicitly claiming that all gods contradictory to Allah do not exist. Both claim to be the Creator of the universe, but they have contradictory attributes (e.g., Christianity claims that there are three "persons" known as God but Islam claims that there is only one). ["There is no God"] is a negative existential, and looking for God here or there, finding or proving this not to be God and that not to be God, does nothing to budge it one bit toward or away from the status of knowledge or even of justified belief. http://www.religionisdumb.com/logickills3athargu1.htm      My in-laws keep making negative comments about atheism About > Religion & Spirituality > Agnosticism / Atheism Atheism & Agnosticism Skepticism & Reasoning Philosophy & Logic Ethics and Morality Humanism & Humanists Religion & Religious Belief Christianity & Christians Islam and Muslims Religious Right The Bible and Scriptures Evolution & Creationism Politics & Political Issues Church & State Before You Buy Top Picks Books on Atheism Books on Religion Church/State Separation Product Reviews http://atheism.about.com/b/a/096112.htm      Atheism 101 There is an Atheist Alliance to which these seven groups belong, formed in 1991, but I do not have an address for it. Most unbelievers regard God as a fiction, putting him in category 3, along with Zeus and Pegasus. Not only can't I prove that vings don't exist: they do!) Another way of answering the charge is: "And you can't prove that Harvey, the six-foot-tall invisible rabbit standing beside me here and now, doesn't exist either." And, of course, he can't. http://se1.com/ft/ftorg/aaaa/literature/atheism101.html      Ron Barrier -- The Garlic Necklace: Positive Atheism in a Negative World Ron noted that “believers understand Atheism in the same way that giraffes understand VCRs.” He added that many of the books about (and, of course, against) Atheism are written by non-Atheists. Ron described “Theology” as “The art of making up stories about things we haven’t found out about yet...” Barrier also serves as Secretary for American Atheists and the other affiliated corporations. http://www.americanatheist.org/conv25/an2.html      Christianity.com Forums: Christianity.com Ministries: [409] Kennedy Commentary: [91823] Atheism: The Double Negative Atheism comes from, literally, the Greek word a-, the negative; and theism, the word theos for godnegative God or there is no God. The views expressed in the Chat and Forums Communities do not necessarily reflect those of Christianity.com or its representatives. Christianity.com Forums: Christianity.com Ministries: [409] Kennedy Commentary: [91823] Atheism: The Double Negative http://forums.christianity.com/html/P933578/      A If existed such being not would need that theologians will try to demonstrate his existence by means of arguments. Introduction to the Atheism we understand that for the author simply it is contradictory and even absurd an idea of the existence of a supreme being --as well as of his inherent qualities- -. «In Introduction to the Atheism, the Norwegian scholar Finngeir Hiorth not only makes a mere presentation to the subject but that also he develops the theory of the atheism»;. http://www.geocities.com/rpfa/atheism.html      What Is Regular Atheism? Is That Negative? Mike Fay (Reply) (8-03) Just the name Positive Atheism makes one think how regular Atheism is negative or that most of Atheism is but this website is a "positive" Atheism site. Is that negative?" I'm an Atheist and to me and everyone atheist I'm hoping does not think Athiesm is a negative thing. Date: August 08, 2003 4:18 AM Well what is regular Atheism? http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml8356.htm

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