• ulkesh@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    That we have to have faith to be an atheist. Complete nonsense, of course.

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      8 months ago

      Faith and belief are the root of all evil.

      It is obvious if you look at the core definitions:

      • belief is the uncritical acceptance of a premise when no evidence for or against it exists or is immediately available.
      • faith is the uncritical acceptance of a premise despite the existence of evidence that invalidates it.

      Both of these are used to make people ignore reality in favour of fantasies and lies. Because if something was a verifiable fact grounded in reality, it would require neither faith nor belief.