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In reply to the discussion: We Are All Atheists [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)11. While I appreciate the underlying point the author's making...
...that essentially everyone on earth rejects the existence of the majority of claimed supernatural entities and doesn't blink twice, or even once, doing it... and none of them have any good reason for excluding the one specific deity they decided to exempt from that rejection beyond some personal preference that that one exist... I absolutely hate that "we are all atheists" line.
Atheists recognize the lack of justification for that final exemption where theists live in denial of it. Which is a significant distinction that shouldn't be glossed over by simply declaring them to be the same. Even to make a rhetorical point.
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there is some ridiculous theological bullshit about how all that is not polytheism. nt.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#12
A better way to phrase it is that monotheists are one god short of atheism.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#13
Every day probably 1000s of people take an Onion article as straight reporting.
goldent
Mar 2015
#25
If the author of the article wants to call me an atheist on that basis, he can go right ahead.
Htom Sirveaux
Mar 2015
#22