Dictionary Atheists and PZ Myers

[Welshidiot]

It is a "refutational" stance , of theism.

Sorry if this seems like nit-picking, but what you've written there kind of sounds like you're describing atheism as a type of theism.

Is that what you're doing?

 

[Dean]

(This is a response to the above post)!
EDIT:

[. . .]Atheism may as well not be an "ism". It is a "refutational" stance , of theism. That's how I see it. Not as a religion itself, but as a "philosophical" stance in the absence of theism? See? :?: [. . .]

 

[Independent Vision]

I'm a dictionary atheist. I became an atheist before I became a skeptic.

Here I was thinking that atheism and theism were supposed to tell someone if you believe or if you don't...

You can be a dictionary atheist and still point out how you PERSONALLY came to the conclusion that you do not believe in any deity in a discussion relating to you personally. Sometimes, tough, the answer to the question "Why are you an atheist" is as simple as "Because I don't believe in gods/goddesses/deities".
People don't always ask to get your personal viewpoint but to get a definition out of you so they can fling it back to you and claim that this person is not an atheist then, because they believe in karma... or something like that.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

I don't want to be beating a dead horse by only reading the first post and responding to it - but it is, honestly, a load of bullshit.

It's almost as bad as Nemesiah's little rants where he goes off and drops off presupposed assumptions based upon little input titles, and then simply because of what he labels himself as he presupposes that he is 100% the righteous vegan atheist warrior and guardian of all that is good.
It's a trend amoungst people who really have no clue what they are talking about - such as NephilimFree, Shock, and so on.

 

[Inferno]

I don't want to be beating a dead horse by only reading the first post and responding to it - but it is, honestly, a load of bullshit.

It's almost as bad as Nemesiah's little rants where he goes off and drops off presupposed assumptions based upon little input titles, and then simply because of what he labels himself as he presupposes that he is 100% the righteous vegan atheist warrior and guardian of all that is good.
It's a trend amoungst people who really have no clue what they are talking about - such as NephilimFree, Shock, and so on.

I take it you're talking about PZ's post when you say "load of bullshit"?

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

I don't want to be beating a dead horse by only reading the first post and responding to it - but it is, honestly, a load of bullshit.

It's almost as bad as Nemesiah's little rants where he goes off and drops off presupposed assumptions based upon little input titles, and then simply because of what he labels himself as he presupposes that he is 100% the righteous vegan atheist warrior and guardian of all that is good.
It's a trend amoungst people who really have no clue what they are talking about - such as NephilimFree, Shock, and so on.

I take it you're talking about PZ's post when you say "load of bullshit"?

Yes.