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Originally Posted by Pookie
You're still wrong. You don't need faith to NOT believe in something. Indeed you cannot prove a negative, but lack of proof doesn't mean faith. I don't believe in a god because there is not one shred of evidence that a god exists. But I wouldn't say that there is definitely not a god because you can't prove a negative. Faith doesn't come into it.
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faith in your belief, thatīs what I meant.
if you believe you are right despite proof, that is an act of faith rather than an empiric belief based on evidence.
not believing in God in the religion-sense does not necessarily mean you're an atheist by the way.
regardless, none of us have the slighest clue why we're here or what happens when we die. so any explanation we can come up with is mere speculation that requires a certain amount of faith in the speculation itself.
while you say there is no evidence that god exists, a lot of people think there is. we see the evidence or the lack of evidence we want to see. we're still human and highly vulnerable to our own suggestion.
when one starts defending their atheism with such stamina, they resemble a radical religious to me.
truth is, we don't know anything, each one of us can believe whatever we want.