Sentences with phrase «position as an atheist»

So, all in all, I'm pretty confident in my position as an atheist, whereas some conservative Christians probably are being disobedient to this law, right?

~ The Superior Atheist believes that its position as an atheist grants it an intellectual superiority above all others.

Thanks for the essay, Casile I've been following your dad's blog for several months now, and from my own position as an atheist, I have appreciated the honest questioning and exploration of many aspects of religion.

Not exact matches

If you stop looking at it as good vs. evil, and start looking at it as right vs. wrong it becomes a lot easier to understand the atheist's position.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

In his recent book God and the New Atheism, the Georgetown theologian John Haught has usefully captured this quasi-religious absolutism among the New Atheists by summarizing their position as a seven - point «creed»:

Or perhaps I simply realize that many of the so called rational atheists who post on CNN are dedicated to reason only as long as it supports their positions and when it doesn't immediately switch to ad hominem attacks to try to get people to ignore the legitimate point that was made.

An atheist will find that position ridiculous, since an atheist will find position A to be false (creating the false cause you note), as would someone who perhaps doesn't hold to the classical Western Christian cosmology, but it is possible for Santorum to hold to A and not - B.

Why do you atheists, who hold science up as a god, hold so many positions that science rejects?

The point is not trying to force people to believe the same as the atheist; the point is to respect all people, allow them to live as they believe best, and do not allow people in positions of power or government to force their religious beliefs upon others.

midwest rail I am puzzled as to why atheists or non believers call it a lie when a Christian takes an unlikely but not ruled out position that is contrary to mainstream scientific consensus.

«To atheists, I make an especially avid plea to reconsider their own position as well.

Now, while this does not directly demonstrate the existence of God, it does open up a whole world beyond the material universe and so it makes the average atheist refreshingly ner vous that his own position is nothing like as secure as he, misguidedly, tends to think it is.

Now if atheists proclaimed «there is no god» as a factual statement (which some do) you would be right... but that isn't the position all, or even most, take.

Well, Christians are just as abusive towards atheists, and there is no calling out from other Christians... I think that says more about the nature of the anonymous internet and which position one holds, than anything.

Oh gosh, why would becoming an atheist, even temporarily, ever jeopardize your position as a pastor or seminary lecturer?

Yes David religion of atheism as some have used the legal definition of religion in law suits in favour of an atheist position.

Instead, too many atheists simply regurgitate the «official» atheist position (ironic, given that this is what they accuse believers of doing vis - a-vis the Bible...), not only without having read the book recently enough to cite it accurately, but also not taking into account the most recent arguments supporting or undermining — not only by believers, but by atheist scientists as well.

Science (like Atheists) forgets they are limited by their own perspective, their literal physical position as a human being here on Earth.

I tend to fall on the side of Atheist as I find it easeir to believe there is no God... as opposed to your position of... there is a God and it is the one I believe in and not those other guys.

Oh, and I'm an atheist from the point of view that i do not believe that a god or gods exist, but i do not say — nor do i take the position — that there is no god or gods, as it is within the realm of possibility.

@Mike: From Smurfettes post... «Oh, and I'm an atheist from the point of view that i do not believe that a god or gods exist, but i do not say — nor do i take the position — that there is no god or gods, as it is within the realm of possibility.»

The only way you can not see what monk said as being a straw man argument is if you consider his representation of the atheists position an accurate one.

The leaders you brand «atheist» are more aptly labelled «authotheists» as they put themselves into the Godhead position.

Theists view agnostics as atheists, while atheists view them as theists (how could anyone fail to see that the atheist position is the only scientific one?).