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#2I know atheist is used because there are fewer worldwide, and it has a pejorative tinge, but I would prefer to call people who believe in the supernatural ‘theists’.
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#3I know atheist is used because there are fewer worldwide, and it has a pejorative tinge, but I would prefer to call people who believe in the supernatural ‘theists’.
'Theist' and 'deist' already describe different kinds of belief. If you believe that the universe couldn't have come from nothing by natural causes, and in fact had a divine spark, you're a deist. If you think that the divine spark has a name and personality and meddles around in human affairs, you're a theist.
I know discussing downvotes is out of fashion, but damn, I just wrote out the definitions. https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/deism-vs-theism
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#4I have all the ‘meaning and purpose’ in my life without arguing with an LLM spewing early 2000s Snide Internet Atheism.
There’s no insight, and there’s no consistency.
If atheism is simply the lack of religious belief, then the supposed superiority of non-believers or the benefits of moral freedom are merely tangential. I personally couldn’t will myself into believing a religion just because it would have good benefits.
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#5I don't think the generated quotes are very good. To me, atheism is not a way of life. I don't go around "not believing in God", in the same way I don't go around "not believing there is a chocolate teapot orbiting the sun.". Neither is atheism being free. You can be atheist and very unfree.
The quotes read like how a religious person who came to atheism might feel, I guess. They are certainly not how any atheists I know would describe it. Mostly it's not there at all.
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