Question for those that identify as "weak atheists"

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bskeptic
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Question for those that identify as "weak atheists"

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For anyone that can identify as a "weak atheist", what best describes your position:

(1) You lack belief in God, but are neutral about the possibility (i.e. quite possibly a God exists, quite possibly he doesn't.)

(2) You lack belief in God, and say God's existence is unlikely, but you can't completely rule it out.

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Re: Question for those that identify as "weak atheists"

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What is an atheist[any sort? An atheist is a polite person that answers a question about god in the foreign language of the questioner.

The polite person speaking in a foreign language replies:

There is only one ultimate reality, which cannot be understood or be described by humans and this one and only one reality is God. God is without any attributes and in particular, nameless and formless. It is never the object of perception or thought.


Some humans try to explain this ultimate reality by asking transcendental questions about the possible nature of God. Different people first asked this type of question many years ago in several places on this earth more or less simultaneously. The answers were and are very different one from another and they can be classified in two overlapping disciplines; religion and philosophy.

It is impossible to even speak of God. Insistence on answering certain questions will unavoidably get the answers wrong, and the constructed god will be unreal, non-existent. I think this is what the Buddha meant when he told people not to ask certain questions because they were impossible to answer. If some people believe in God then these people only believe in a god of their own making; in a non –existing false god since it is impossible for anyone to even think what God might be.



For the atheist any god is as good as any other if it satisfies the need felt by many humans to find answers to certain questions and for as long as the created god contributes towards the happiness of humanity.

For people that do not require answers to impossible questions the word ‘ god’ has no meaning whatsoever since god is a word only meaningful as an answer to a mystery. How could rules be formulated for any question relating to a word that cannot have a reliable meaning; an empty word from which they feel totally detached and indifferent?

Whether God exists or not is of no importance and since all gods are constructed by men it follows that all morality is also constructed by men, [women are of no importance to gods, priests are always male]
Human rights should be valued above divine privileges
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