Changing minds.: Kristyn
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This is a response to YouTuber Kristopher Mann, who asked me recently to respond to his video about the discussion between The Duke and Steve McRae on Modern Day Debates, as well as a discussion about both The Duke and Kristopher's arguments.
It's come to my attention in the last year or so, that many are conflating the classical/philosophical definition of atheism with antitheism (sometimes spelt anti-theism). Regardless of your preferred use of atheism and atheist, over the centuries and still today atheism is the belief/proposition/claim there are no gods, with the atheist accepting (believing) this is
Language can be confusing. Words mean particular things and then because they have similar meanings to other words they take on those meanings and then words become so interchangeable it can be hard to know what people mean when they use these words/phrases. One of the common words that gets stretched so thin is belief.
I was invited on Cheshire's live stream 'A Goblin Reads' with Dave as she had seen my discussion with Aron about his belief that 'Rocks are atheist!' who then wrote a post called 'What is Atheism?' Our video on prescriptivism might also be of interest: The article I read (and am responding to) is on
I often hear my fellow atheists say things like 'You can't prove a negative!' in a debate. This is often in response to either a theist trying to shift the burden of proof, or a misunderstanding of epistemic justification (aka burden of rationality or burden of proof on a belief position). I often respond to
As a site that promotes reason, we often find we are against popular public opinions. Even though we are atheists by one definition or another, it is often our fellow atheists we are trying to reason with. There are a lot of common opinions many people hold, and they seem to be ingrained within the
There are some people that like to claim the lack of belief, or absence of belief, definition of atheism is the most common one. I contest that, whilst it is common on social media due to political parties like the American Atheists and American YouTube shows like The Atheist Experience, it isn't that common outside
It's common to hear folks say things like "there is no atheist community" and "saying atheist community is like saying non-stamp collector community, I don't see one" and on the surface this is understandable, you generally don't see a community of non-stamp collectors or non-believers in Bigfoot, but can we say the same for atheists?
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