• beteljuice@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Your definition of atheism is not my experience with pretty much every atheist I’ve ever met. It’s not absense of belief, but belief that God doesn’t exist. There was never anything nuanced about the definition.

    Now we can say absense of belief for the sake of discussion, but then it becomes an issue of semantics, as there is overlap with agnosticism. But it doesn’t match my experience at all. Most atheists will call you names for suggesting anything but the idea that the laws of physics are a complete description of reality. Teenage edgelords mainly.

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        1 year ago

        There’s a difference between speaking of a category of behavior and being personally named.

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          1 year ago

          I have no idea what you mean by that. You’re saying atheists name call nonatheists, and then you immediately call them edgelords.

          No atheists here are name-calling, but you felt the need to generalize them as edgelords. That’s hypocrisy.