Not Believing in God, but Not Liking the Atheist Label

[quote]far-Left social causes like feminism [/quote]

That's the most bonkers thing I have heard this week.

[quote]Whilst it's technically true that atheism is nothing more than a denial of God...[/quote]
No, it is not. Atheism is, as many argue, the default position. It is belief in the invisible which does not come naturally, and must be taught. However, I suppose one cannot expect an accurate definition from one who unironically uses phrases such as
[quote]...far-Left social causes like feminism and abortion...[/quote]

Atheists very much believe in morality, except it is not given by God. Moral realism, if they are to avoid self-defeat by the idea that "morality is relative and subjective", is what they should advocate.

Of course, it does not explain how, and why, we are affected by harm. However, when you can demonstrate that (to use an example) stabbing someone causes pain, blood loss and possibly death, they can avoid the why and how in their attempt to show that religion is not necessary to be moral or exercise restraint.

An atheist is someone loved by God, but has yet to accept the joy of knowing Him.

Nope.

I am uncertain whether or not God exists. That makes me neither an atheist nor a believer. That makes me an [b][i]agnostic.[/i][/b] For me the existence of God or gods is an open question.

I often find that religious people try to pigeonhole me as an atheist. In their eyes there are only two possible positions. That is the fallacy of the excluded middle, AKA false dichotomy.

Feminism is also a term where people quibble on its definition. If anyone remembers the original social movement, it was about winning equal civil rights and opportunities for women and girls. That’s basically all it was (but no small thing at the time). What others have added often falls into the realm of misandry, which was [b]not[/b] the initial intent.

Personally, [i] sans manquer de respect à M. Camus[/i], I don’t believe for a number of reasons, but I see myself as agnostic rather than atheist because I still have questions.

My understanding is, what makes an atheist is [b]certainty[/b]. 🙂

For a while there were some anti- feminist atheists on YouTube. I don't know what happened to them because I stopped watched atheist videos.

You do not have to be far left or support feminism to be an atheist. But maybe there is something about the natural inclination of human behavior and thought when you remove the indoctrination of hierarchy and subservience common in a lot of religions. Especially the Abrahamic ones that causes them to drift away from hierarchies (which is more left on the political scale).

I am an atheist and I actually believe in objective morality. Though we totally lack in proper information and context to act in the most moral way at any given time. The subjectivity that our knowledge and cultural norms impose is ethics. Ethics change over time, morality is static. Our understanding of how moral an action was can change over time as well as we understand more about morality. Example: Slavery was always immoral. At some points in history it was sadly considered ethical. But it was never moral.

Funnily enough, despite believing in objective morality, I do fall into your nihilism bucket. In the end, none of this really matters. There is no greater purpose. No mighty power to appease. But even though nothing matters, that does not make life meaningless. It frees us to define our own meaning. Like a sandbox video game. We just have to be more careful because we don't respawn.

God/s all an invention of humans. There is no evidence to support the existence of such supernatural beings. Even if there were, there is ample evidence that such beings have no concerns over what happens to we human beings. Religion is merely a way of exerting control over various populations.

I don't really think about it.