se7en, you have missed the point entirely. After my cheap shot at atheism and the posting of the Dsousa articles, I questioned intellectual honesty of atheists based on the following three (3) statements.

  • Atheists refuse to admit that atheism is a faith based belief
  • Atheists refuse to grant the same courtesies they demand of others in debate
  • Atheism takes automatic assumption of intellectual superiority by portraying those that believe in a higher power as mentally damaged
  • And then presented the evidence on each of the three statements based on my own personal observations.

    The question here isn't about whether God exists or not. It is whether or not Atheism is a belief and whether or not atheists are going to intellectually honest about it.

    Belief is defined as "the mental attitude that some proposition is true. For every given proposition, every person either has or lacks the mental attitude that it is true. Beliefs may be stronger or weaker, based on evidence or not, reasonable or irrational. Beliefs are a mental representation of the world around you — a belief about the world is the mental attitude that world is structured in some way rather than another. Beliefs are the foundation for action: if you believe something is true, you must be willing to act as if it were true; if you are unwilling to act as thought it were true, you can't really claim to believe it. This is why actions can matter much more than words."

    So, here is the problem as I see it, Atheism is eaither a belief or it is not, and if it is not a belief, how can anyone honestly say "I don't believe God exists."






    "In the hegemonic state there is neither right nor law; there are only directives and regulations which the director may change daily and apply with what discrimination he pleases which the wards must obey. The wards have one freedom only: to obey without asking questions. "
    Ludwig von Mises -- Human Action p. 199; p. 198