Posted: Jun 01, 2014 6:54 pm
the mouse wrote:
An atheist may be a person who does not believe in a God, but only in the same way that theism is merely a lack of belief that we are merely the products of blind natural occurrence. Atheism may be in essence the rejection of all theistic world views, but only in the sense that theism is rejection of all atheistic worldviews. But the arguments for theism, or atheism are purely not just that, in fact they are arguments often for their own atheistic/theistic worldviews.
That's a factually inaccurate attempt at equivocation. Theism is not simply a lack or belief that humans are the product of blind natural occurrence, it goes on to describe a specific mechanism of origin and defines that entity as a deity, with specific characteristics. It then goes on to tell you what that deity wants from you, and how it thinks and feels.
It's not the rejection of blind natural processes. It's the rejection of blind natural processes because you have a belief in a deity to defend.