I’m curious if there’s a name to the belief I have. I wouldn’t exactly call it atheist, though i generally lean that way, but I wouldn’t call it non-theist. The thing is, I just plain don’t care if God exists or not. They could, or they couldn’t, it really has no bearing on how I live my life. For that reason along I think I go in the atheist camp, but I always thought that was used to describe people who don’t think he exists.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    3 个月前

    what I call Atheist. You don’t care if one exists or not.

    The classical Atheist cares. He finds it important that God does not exist.

    This here is an Agnostic.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      The classical Atheist cares. He finds it important that God does not exist.

      I see you fall into my second line of lumping Atheists with anti-theists.

      Agnostic is you believe there is something equating to a god but don’t believe in God

      • AdNecrias@lemmy.pt
        1·
        3 个月前

        You’re capitalising God to mean some abraamic god or just whichever currently proposed god?

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      You’re thinking of anti-theist.

      Antitheism, also spelled anti-theism, is the philosophical position that theism should be opposed.

      Atheists can merely not care if there was a god because they don’t see any proof of it.

      Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

      Atheism can also be more anti than that, but isn’t necessarily always that way

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 个月前

      Nope, he finds it important no one uses what to him is a fictional character to push laws and regulations. You would also care if people prohibited you from doing something you like to do or think is important because Superman said it was wrong.

      That’s a big difference, in general atheist don’t care about God(s), they care about people trying to use God(s) to push an agenda, but the people who’re trying to use God(s) to push that agenda rarely see the difference.

        • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 个月前

          Do you find it important that Spider-Man does not exist? Do you think anyone in their right mind would find it important? No, but the moment someone starts to force you to do or not do stuff because Spider-Man thinks it’s bad it becomes important to make it clear that Spider-Man is not real.

          The VAST majority of atheist are indifferent towards religion, unless that religion is trying to control them somehow. This is why you don’t see atheist complaining about Buddhism in western countries, if a religion is not trying to force itself into an atheist life he cares as much as you do about all of the thousands of other religions you’re an atheist towards. If you feel atheist are trying to impose their non-believe on you, it’s because you’re trying to impose your belief on them and they’re calling you on your bullshit.

          Also, btw, I never claimed I was an atheist, so I see no reason for you to think that atheist should believe the same thing I do.