I’ve never pirated, if you want an example who is the opposite of Garth on that score, apparently.
My question now is “Real Pirate” or “Disney Pirate”? They’re two very different things. 
You take things literally…word for word, which only shows how narrow your mind is. Taking things word for word can be dangerous. Try reading books. Many of them have 2nd meanings to them behind their story.
Well, sorry danielsangeo, when I say “God” (Oh noes, sorry for the capital G), I’m talking about a general entity, male or female or hermaphrodite, whatever. No need to nitpick because I typed the word god with a capital G and didn’t use the word goddess, but I think my point was pretty clear besides that.
Like I said, I don’t follow a certain religion because frankly, I don’t give a shit about anything of that. I live my life, an anything that happens to me that isn’t by my doing (could be supernatural) is a neat little extra. But as an Atheist you pretty much deny the very existence of a god(dess), so any Atheist saying that there might be a god, but just doesn’t believe in him, isn’t that much of an Atheist, but more of an Agnostic. And no, the two can’t interchange, because an Atheist denies the existence of a god, an Agnostic acknowledges the chance there might exist a god. See how both clash with eachother?
Well it’d be fairly unscientific to say that there -for sure- isn’t a God. That’s mirroring what religious extremists do. You’re not much of an Atheist if you subscribe to that belief. Atheism isn’t a belief system, it’s a lack of belief.
Lack of belief in anything related to gods, even their existence. So yes, an Athiest shouldn’t even doubt the possible existence of god. There are no gods, point finite, final.
Like I said before. People who claim they’re Atheist are as stuck up and thick as anyone who blindly follows a religion.
I for one get pissed of when someone says they’re an Atheist, because half the time they’re lying, and the other times they’re just ignorant.
Basically as a scientist you are right until you are proven wrong.
Well more accurately, you are wrong for a little while as you refine your hypothesis, then you are right as long as your theory or law does not run into any contradictory evidence, but as soon as contradictory evidence is found you are wrong again.
Its actually very difficult to be correct, which is why those who know better never define anything in absolutes unless they are reasonably sure that they won’t be proven wrong during their lifetime.
I am reasonably certain that evidence will not be presented within my lifetime that proves the existence of gods as defined by man, and thus I can say with absolute certainty that God does not exist, making me an Atheist. 
You have a theory, you’re not really right until proven wrong, but you’re not exactly wrong either, that’s the glory of the scientific method.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wV_REEdvxo
Yeah, I’ve posted this video before, but it’s so bloody brilliant at explaining why I’m an atheist.
I should have said ‘successful’ scientist, haha. :3
Sorry for nitpicking, but when you say “the Moon” or “the Sun”, it can only really mean one celestial object. You wouldn’t call Europa “the Moon” would you? You wouldn’t call Alpha Centauri “the Sun”, right? So, why would you call Ahura Mazda “God”?
No, I don’t, because you have a flawed axiom. An atheist does not “believe” in any deity, the atheist does NOT “deny” the existence of any deity.
Thank you.
There’s a problem I have with the word “know” and it’s being used in the two contexts differently, I think. Science doesn’t claim to ‘know’ everything, but there are things that you can know don’t exist.
If you say that you have an invisible, undetectable dragon living in your garage, how is that any different than saying that you have do not have dragon in your garage?
Is it fear that “you might be shown to be wrong one day”? Well, I’m sorry, but screw that. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
However, I do know that the gods and goddesses that are known to man do not exist for the plain and simple fact that gods and goddesses of the past have been shown to be natural processes…for example: Ra, the hawk-headed god which carried the Sun on its head as it rode a boat along the sky. The boat was to protect the Sun from the underworld waters that it traveled through each night, y’see. And Ra would have to battle the demons of the underworld each night. Today, however, we know that there’s no boat, no hawk-headed being and the Sun doesn’t travel through the underworld each night. All these deities are creations of man.
Or, wait, do we KNOW for certain that the Sun doesn’t take a trip though the underworld each night? I mean, isn’t it better to be agnostic about that? :meh:
No. No, it isn’t. Not to me. The Sun is shining on a different part of the Earth when it’s night where you are. It isn’t in an underworld. I know for certain that the deities that we know about (there are thousands) do not exist for the same reason I know that the sun is not riding in a boat. Do I know for certain that no deities exist at all, even ones that might be incomprehensible to us? No, I don’t. However, until I see some evidence that they exist, I won’t believe that they do.
does not exist.
I think not knowing what athiesm is is pretty fucking ignorant.
It’s lack of belief. An atheist believes nothing, they either know, are fairly sure, are fairly unsure, or don’t know. This includes gods. That’s not belief. Not in the way you’re explaining it. You’re making belief synonymous with faith, which is the blind acceptance of something.
Atheists deal in knowledge, not belief, and to say that it’s stuck up and thick is outrageously arrogant and stupid.
Seriously, you’re a douchebag. I could just as well say you’re stuck up and ignorant for not believing in fairies.
I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in god. I consider the existence of a god as probable as the existence of fairies.
Sure, it’s a possibility, but it’s not likely.
You’re the one being stuck up by saying your point of view is the only good one.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Atheism is a system of defining the world around ones self based on the evidence available. A true atheist can be convinced of anything. There is no evidence of a god, so it’s not something that we accept as true.
I think it’s interesting that you make broad stroke assumptions about something you have no understanding of based on the claims of people around you that don’t represent it’s very fundamentals. Either the people you know act inappropriately, or you are misinterpreting them.
I am an Atheist because I’ve not seen or heard any evidence of any god. Without evidence I have no reason to believe a god exists.
Because they’re so morally sound right? I love it when they say they are.
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the major difference between religious and atheist people is a part in the brain that is different. for the atheist it is filled with logical thinking and for religious people it is filled with a story/book that they completely rely on. think of this. when i give my 2 year old nephew an harry potter book and keep reminding him for his entire youth that the story is real and that he should worship Ron. for him the story is real. and the space in his brain is filled with a book. unless! he has the power to think for himself to realize that the book is full of illogical sh*t.
from that point his life opens op and he starts to think further instead of wat should i do to worshop Ron. from that point he is an atheist.
jesus doesnt support pirates unless you’re downloading gospel
I’m not entirely sure who you’re referring to as “they.” Care to clarify?
Add all the little descriptions each and everyone of you are giving me in this thread (about what Atheism is) to that, and you get the general image that even self claimed Atheists don’t know what Atheism is.
I can’t say for sure because I don’t know you, but this just looks like most of you just chose to be an Atheist because you think religion is a crappy principle (and hey, I agree with you on that issue). But most of you seem to be Agnostic in the end, because you all keep saying “there might be a god(dess), but we’ll see when it gets proven”. If you were a true Atheist, your answer would be “there is no god, never was, never will be, all religions are wrong”. Not “There might be one, I just just chose not to believe in one”, because that’s closer to Agnosticism than to Atheism.
I still stand by my point. Atheists are as stuck up and ignorant as extremely religious people (and any extreme for that matter (extreme left vs. extreme left, for example… both are utter retards).
So you uphold the doctrine that “You must not hold an extreme belief about anything! All points are valid, all the time, and nothing should be debated or questioned because that would just be plain ol’ rude!”
Furthermore, it seems that you think ‘athiests’ as a group are somehow less valid because their opinions differ?
Let me tell you a story about christianity.
At first there was one christianity, and everyone believed the same thing.
Then some had different opinions and broke off to form thier own congregations and spout thier own ideas about what christianity was supposed to be.
Then even more groups split off from those groups… and today we have perhaps hundreds of different denominations of christianity and they all disagree on the basic tenets of their ideology.
This goes for pretty much every idea, belief system, and concept every concieved, so if you want to use that as your position you might as well just call every human being on earth an ignorant stupidface and be done with it.