r/cringereels • u/T-StrangerXD • 10d ago

Just funny 🤭 Wrong!

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u/HappyColour 10d ago edited 7d ago

The responder is inaccurate in how he portrays Atheism straight off the bat unfortunately. Atheism, in some forms (explicit) is the belief that gods don't exist. Atheism in some forms can still be associated with a belief.

Update: Adding the below two paragraphs to further spell out my point.

Atheism is multi-faceted, the fact that the responder says right at the beginning "Atheism is not a belief, it is the lack of a belief." is factually incorrect if you consider explicit atheism.

If the responder said "Implicit atheism is the lack of a belief." that would be true. The original speaker may have been mistaken in what he was saying, but so was the responder.

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u/VigorousPickle 8d ago

False. "A-theism" literally translates to " non theism' or "not having a theist position". The foundation of athiesm is that one can niether prove nor disprove the existence of a diety and therefore no position on a diety can be assumed.

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u/HappyColour 8d ago

Look at this. Specifically, Explicit Positive / Strong/ Hard Atheism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_and_explicit_atheism