Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Dishonesty and thoughtlessness in believers. [View all]stone space
(6,498 posts)The fact that I don't believe in God is a relatively unimportant and minor one, in my view, although it is the one that you have been focusing most of your attention on in your questioning of me.
Some of my atheist beliefs would include my support for civil rights, such as the right to marry. (At one time, our own marriage would have been illegal, even here in Iowa.)
The year after Bowers v Hardwick (1986), I joined with 480 others (including many Christians as well as other atheists) in a nonviolent direct action sitting on the steps of the US Supreme Court and refusing to move, demanding that Bowers be overturned as an expression of my atheist beliefs in support of civil rights. We were released from jail 48 hours later, and 17 years after that, the US Supreme Court did finally overturn Bowers in Lawrence v Texas (2003).
My atheist pacifism would be another. I'm an abolitionist when it comes to things like land mines, cluster bombs and nuclear weapons. (And many other things.) I also support the repeal of the 2nd Amendment.
My atheism includes, somewhat ironically given our previous discussion here in this thread, a rather literal interpretation of the biblical prophesy in Isaiah 2:4, which might put me as a Pacifist Atheist in closer company with Pacifist Christians from the Plowshares Movement than to Cluster Bomb Atheists like Christopher Hitchens, I suppose.
The list of my deeply held atheist beliefs could go on, but that's a start, I suppose.