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There is this famous quote from Richard Dawkins: “We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.“ 1/5
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I would go one step further and propose that not only is everyone an atheist to *some* degree, but none more so than an actual believer. Why? 2/5
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Assuming N deities in human history (the exact value of N does not matter here — estimates of 10,000 are common), the believer believes in just 1 (or one pantheon), and firmly rejects the remaining N-1 because they are mutually exclusive (sometimes to the point of heresy). 3/5
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The typical atheist rejects just one more deity, for a total of N, but not as firmly: the atheist’s lack of belief isn’t symmetrical to the believer’s faith. It’s just a default position that awaits incontrovertible evidence, without rejecting the tenuous possibility. 4/5
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The believer’s position is, in aggregate, a much more resolute position against the existence of most deities than the atheist’s position against the existence of all deities. 5/5
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yeah, on the whole, convicted belief in any one deity is far more arrogant (and in my mind far more reprehensible) than the disbelief in any of it
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convicted belief for some, commitment for others. when either side is reduced to its most fundamental sample, it's hard to find anything good to say about it.
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commitment is commendable and respectable, for me belief in something that objectively no one can truly say for certain is real or factual, however, drives my bullshit detector bonkers
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but that's why it's a *belief*, no? if it were factual, it'd have been knowing.
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the core problem with this is the people with these beliefs operate as though they are more than beliefs, that they are facts and push the effects of operating this way onto the world and everyone else around them
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