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Dash_Harber posted...

Kineth posted...

Atheism requires a similar amount of faith to theism because of the absolute claim with the inability to actually prove it.

They aren't really similar, at all. The burden of proof lies on the person making the claim. Atheists are not making a claim, they are disputing an incredibly common claim. There is no 'atheists Bible' that hands out what you are supposed to believe in. Someone can be an atheist and still believe in ghosts, or magic, or invisible pink unicorns. That would requires some sort of faith. However, that is not a hallmark of the label atheism.

I'm saying that Atheism's claim is that there is no god/divine power/whatever. I'm not saying that Atheism and Theism are the same at all. They both hinge on a certain amount of conviction in the belief of the existence or lack thereof of divinity. If it were simply a counterargument to Abrahamaic religions, they could just look into something like Buddhism. Agnosticism is where skepticism truly lies.
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