ATHEISM IS NOT A BELIEF SYSTEM

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Atheism is a 'belief' system, it's just another religion, it's a belief system.
I hear this nonsense all the time on my channel, especially in the comment section. So I thought it to be relevant to correct that nonsense.
Atheism is NOT a belief system. No matter what you think, no matter what you say, atheism is NOT a belief system.

You know why: Atheism does not believe anything. Atheism doesn't claim anything. All atheism is, is not believing the claim that a god exists.
It's so simple...

[justincredible.]

They're trying to take it DOWN to their level, so they know what their level is

[OlivierGabin]

My favorite definition : Atheism is a belief the same way as "OFF" is a channel on your TV set.

[oldcountryboy]

I also like it when they say evolutionist or Darwinist Instead of saying scientists

[bladerunner]

Saddest thing is, this has been going on for at least 40 years and thanks to believers being real smart and grifters like Matty Powell, that won't change.

[chrisconklin]

Thanks. One of the common theist terms used is "Worldview". What you are saying is that Atheism is not a worldview. If one wants an atheistic type of worldview then it would be Philosophical Naturalism which is based on materialism/physicalism. Materialism is the position that only physical things exist, discounting metaphysics. A refinement of materialism is physicalism which adds non-material forces like magmatism and gravity.

[simonkoster]

commendable but ultimately futile effort. They will never get it because they don't want to get it.

[Awakened_Mucacha]

It is astonishing how fucking often we have to repeat something so simple.

[odojang]

Beleivers must make atheism a conflicting belief because it is their only way to oppose it; and to gaslight themselves off the unacceptable, unconfortable questionning of their own belief a simple lack of it creates. Especially when disbelief and/or lack of submission to the faith is the only sin their god will not ever forgive.

[kenbattor]

They will continue to say that Atheism is a belief system because it serves their interest to portray it as such.

[davidcarney]

It's like saying water is a flavour of juice

[roddydelipsa]

Exactly, that´s why we don´t need to answer (or know the answer to) gotcha questions like, then who do you believe made the universe? or, why do you believe something came from nothing, or, where do you think morality came from, and such. Unfortunately, there are a number of videos here where a theist goes around asking atheist on the street about their beliefs, and coming up with questions likes these, to which most people don´t have a concise answer, leaving the theist feeling intellectually superior since they know "god did everything".

[jenna]

If they made an effort to understand what an atheist is, then they'd have to put some effort into understanding what Christianity actually is. That frightens them.

[justincredible.]

An all-knowing, perfect god is incapable of make mistakes.
There are mistakes in the bible (light before the sun, for instance).
Therefor, the bible disproves an all-knowing, perfect god.

[InigoMontoya-]

If it is a belief system, it is surely the least complicated system of all. The entire system can be sumarized as such: "I am unable, at this time, to believe in the existence of a god "
That is less complicated than shampoo instructions.

[dncg]

Atheism is a belief system. This fact is not negotiable. If there is no deity then this fact is not negotiable nor is it a negative attribute the atheist, but it is a prerogative.

It's the purposel systematic integration of the belief of "the absence of deity" into every thought, motive, and life plan.

How the system works:

>I am thinking. I exist.
>I'm trapped in a body.
>How did my body get here?
>Must be here because of natural means of biogenesis.
>Where did me ancestors originate? Or their's?
>Something time less, ageless, and matterless must have caused us to appear. An original cause.
>What was that cause: accident or purpose?
>Well accident means I'm not accountable to any ancient meaning, and purpose enslaves me to an original value. i.e. Time+Magic=Matter; Matter+Time+Magic=Mankind.
>And purpose means enslaved to an original purpose. i.e. Entity+Mankind=Purpose.
>How can I know the cause for sure?
>I can have blind-faith that one sect of scientists or another have found that cause. And this blind-faith reliquishes me from the burden of spending my time on the pursuit of cause so I can pursue fulfillment of immediate bodily satisfaction.
>One sect of scientists say that they have no concrete evidence, but based on the interpretation of existing evidence under the scrutiny of the scientific method using current technology, they can philosophically presume that if there is no deity, then our origin is of minerals accidentally organizing into functional machines over time, then geolocating to accidentally form into a brilliantly working machine that both needed and accidentally built a consciousness and self-awareness. This means I should build my future towards the fulfillment and preservation of my body and consciousness over that of any other body or consciousness.
The other sect of scientists say that they don't believe in the presumption of the first sect of scientists' scientific philosophy that our engineering was by any means "chance, " and that a deity purposely crafted bodies with the capacity for metabolism and intelligence, and purposely equipped these bodies with a consciousness and a spirit to make choices, and the faculties to create beauty and destruction; to do good or evil; to cause love or pain; to make choices; to be judged for our choices.
We I'm no fool, so I wasn't there at the beginning to corroborate the Billion year time scale, so I'll try the deity thing first. If that fails, I'll believe the first.
>Or,
>What the crap? They didn't teach deity in school, that's hog wash. I've attained all knowledge of the universe and all knowledge of all universal attributes including: energetic, radiative, electromagnetical, physical, metaphysical, mega physical, celestial, and even spiritual knowledge frome high school and university and google, so I know what I'm taking about.
>Or,
>
>Ok, let's just "try" the deity thing. Hello? Hello? I've got a cookie for yah! If you want me to talk to you, you gotta come to me and at least ask me a question, hit me with lightning, give me $1million, or make some magic trick. I don't need you, you need me right?... Ok, it's been a few days(weeks/mo/yrs), and you are pretty quiet. Ok you must not exist. That's what I thought. Wow, god's are frail, stupid and skittish. Who wants one of them? They can't even stop bad people from doing bad thing. There must be no good and no bad. Anyways, I definitely don't like all those barbaric rituals them weird people do and I read and memorized all the religious books and am an expert now. Ok, I'm done with this mess!
>There is no deity!(see nothing happened)
>There is no deity! so I should be able to do what I want!(see, we're good). >Therefore, I exist as my own law giver and choise maker.(ok, I'm pretty sure I'm safe, I feel satisfied with my ideas, and others agree so it's gotta be true, and Ixm pretty smart so tis is the best decision)
>I will make my plans, choises, and destany based and centered on myself.
I am, therefore, I do.

"I Am, " I need, " Or "I want, therefore, I Do" are not default statements. Even if they could be construed to be so, these are all statements that is entirely founded on being self-centered. Being self-centric is a what? It is a self-centered, (or even a group-entered) "belief system."

English was not your default language. You were taught your language and therefore you wer influenced in your thinking processes to be able to speak. Your only "default" was cry/eat/poop, everything else was a "belief system/s" that was/were ascribed to you.

[kirtanuum]

"I believe science is the best method for explaining what we see in the world and the universe around us."

[gregsanich]

Precisely, they try to associate it with tenants like rationality and skepticism, or with beliefs like secular govt or rights to bodily autonomy or science. It's not a worldview and so cannot have a 'movement' or evangelize & promote its beliefs. That's obviously not the case.

[holgerlubotzki]

It's easy to prove that the bible g0d does not exist. The bible itself proves that.

[hammalammadingdong]

If atheism is a belief system, then abstinence is a sex position.

[--Ezra--]

They can't fathom the concept of not believing in a god so they struggle to accept that atheists are not some idioly or a kind of religion. That's just sad