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Originally Posted by Chris
Anyone can of course be an atheist, but let's be absolutely clear about this: atheism is a belief, not a scientific principle.
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You're on sticky ground when you start throwing words like "belief" and "faith" around in a religious thread with atheism as one of the main topics.
As "faith" and "belief" are very strong words to those that participate in religion that have deep and spiritual meaning.
Whereas to athiests, they are just words.
I don't have a belief that there is no all powerful supernatural deity , I just dismiss the concept out of hand.
The argument that atheism is some kind of belief system is weak and incorrect.
I see nothing in the world or universe that says to me that this was all created by a supernatural being, that isn't a belief, it's an observation.