• db2@sopuli.xyz
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        Ackshually… it’s a lack of theism. Technically deists are atheists.

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        Atheism is the belief that there are no deities. Atheists have a burden of proof of a negative. Only agnostics get the “not a belief system” card.

        Fight me.

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          I…don’t need to fight you. It’s not about burden of proof; it’s about the definition of the word. Atheism is—as we agree—merely a yes/no classification of the belief in a deity; it is not a belief system in itself. As such, someone can be an atheist while still having a religion, which is a belief system, one that may or may not involve a deity.

          Burden of proof only applies if one is making a claim in an objective context, not when one is making a claim in a subjective context.