I’m curious if there’s a name to the belief I have. I wouldn’t exactly call it atheist, though i generally lean that way, but I wouldn’t call it non-theist. The thing is, I just plain don’t care if God exists or not. They could, or they couldn’t, it really has no bearing on how I live my life. For that reason along I think I go in the atheist camp, but I always thought that was used to describe people who don’t think he exists.

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    2 months ago

    Atheism is the belief (ironically) that there is no divinity.

    I don’t think that’s strictly true. The lack of belief in something isn’t a belief. By that logic, everyone would be a believer in the infinite things that don’t exist, which is silly.

    Believing god is blue with 10 arms or an old white man, or a moon beam is a belief. Having no belief in any of those things isn’t an alternate belief system the same way an empty pie tin isn’t another form of pie.

    Do some take the extra step and say something like “it’s impossible for there to be a god!”? Sure, but I think most atheists instead find 0 evidence of god, and therefore find it very unlikely.

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      An atheist who finds cero evidence, but does not believe (or assert) there is no divinity, is not an atheist, they are an agnostic-atheist.

      I don’t think it matters. But belief in there being no divinity, is by definition: a-theism (no-god)

      Side note: Everyone is a believer in things that do not exist. Like perfect geometry, or the value of paper money.