saint david quote..""Atheism generally
is a result of the lack of evidence""

lol
that explains soooo little...lol

but then again so much
revealing why you [and peter]..in particular
focus so much on a messenger's message..[the means,..not the way
[to wit..the keepers/readers..creeds..that preserved..the holy texts tao]

anyone actually reading what you have written..
right here on this topic..will recall your endless
name calling of religeons..acts of those faulse beliefs
as the sole cause..and blame for shame]

[heck even i agree with much of it]
and have said so

i guess thats the clever thing
about having no creed in writing

[and never presenting transcripts
of the blather..many will hear at your meet and greet..in mal born]

""and in some instances
because of the lack of indoctrination""

mate i think more are rejecting 'religeon'
because of the preaching..as at least two
have said..on this very thread.

it must be good to feel so high and mighty
when your blowing in the wind like a wind soc*

""There is nothing “negative”
about going where the evidence leads.""

egsactly
and as you have repeatedly said
you lot got no proof of not god

many are simply seeking a god free solution
new age spirituality..with living faulse god heads

thus missing the truth and reality
of the living loving good [god]..of grace mercy and work's

not endless words
not endless name calling

its funny we got many athiests even here in hell
even here we are allowed to chose..to recognise the living god

that in all our hearts doth dwell..
[literally..as well as figerativly]

Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc
This is your opportunity

1. Tell me how a negative view of others belief creates vest for life; without being negatively extremists of others view.

2. Tell me how a negative view improves your place in the cosmos.

3. Tell me how a negative opinion make atheists feel personally secure.

Philo,

“1. Tell me how a negative view of others belief creates vest for life; without being negatively extremists of others view.”

I don’t hold a negative view about the beliefs of others. I hold a different view. That view says we don’t know everything and leads me on an exciting journey of investigation. As this is the only life available, I personally am not inclined to waste it on what cannot be proven. It is up to others if they don’t feel the same way.

“2. Tell me how a negative view improves your place in the cosmos.”

It would do you well to drop the negative word as that is only in your head. I do not have an expectation I will live eternally and therefore I value this life more than, if the opposite were true.

“3. Tell me how a negative opinion make atheists feel personally secure.”

Again with the negative, why use it. Are you “negative” about fairies? Anyway, who says an atheist feels personally secure. Whatever that means? I feel very comfortable knowing that I am an incarnate part of a mind-blowing system and that my life is a blink in infinity. I would possibly like to live for a few hundred years but certainly not for eternity. But wishing for these things, whatever the wish will not make it come true.

David

Dave AFoAI.
The very premise upon which your title "Atheism" is founded in case you do not understand is a negative and means "No God". Form a world view based upon a positive position and you might have crediblity i.e. "The universe of natural reality".

Philo,

Because there is a word, 'god' it does not make it true. A negative of that word is a-god but that is only a description of the made up word.

That cannot then be transferred to mean that everything about atheism is negative.

I say again, you are in the same vein, 'negative' about fairies. How does that affect you negatively.

You are playing with words to justify your position.

It is not working.

David

Hmmm,

Many things are defined in terms of a negative. I *desire* that my urea stock remains anhydrous, that my tools of trade are aseptic.

Examples abound, even electrical current is defined as "positive" when we know that "negative" "electrons" are migrating the other way (in the simplest case).

Quibbling over negative terminology is the sort of thing people who do things and strive for genuine understanding can get over, surely.

Rusty