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Re: Why don't you consider Atheism a religion? - February 13th 2010, 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted by If You Only Knew View Post
I'm sorry, but "belief in nothing" just seems like an oxymoron. :P
It may sound like it, but it isn't.

I believe that there is no flying spaghetti monster. I don't know for a fact there isn't one because I am not omniscient or omnipresent, which I'd have to be to know for certain there isn't one. An Atheist has a belief that there is no God.

One can call this "unbelief" but it's still a belief in believing there is nothing because one cannot say for certain there is nothing. So it's unbelief in God, but you're choosing to believe there is no God in the same sense. Therefore you're still holding a belief in the non-existence of God.

Anyways, can we close this thread?