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@Phantome Not believe in God, is like saying Not believing in Superman or Spiderman, that are fictional characters, for one is only denying a God created as a fictional character by someone else. So one has to be more specific by saying "I don't believe in the concept of God" is a different argument.
Again, when I do not know if there is any god or not or don't believe in that concept, then I have to establish its truth by a philosophy that "God does not exist in any form or as a force or activity beyond", which nobody can, as there are many things that happen which cannot be explained, but understood.
For instance, one has the right to establish Nature, Fate, Time as the God. Personally I call fate, as Almighty Fate, whenever I need to refer to god, to reason or comprehend something.
Hope you see the difference, for not believing in someone's god or God as referred to in general, and saying that there is No god at all.
Paganism, Voodoiism etc. too are atheists in strict sense, but have established their belief as religion, by defining their own god / deity etc.
Again, when I do not know if there is any god or not or don't believe in that concept, then I have to establish its truth by a philosophy that "God does not exist in any form or as a force or activity beyond", which nobody can, as there are many things that happen which cannot be explained, but understood.
For instance, one has the right to establish Nature, Fate, Time as the God. Personally I call fate, as Almighty Fate, whenever I need to refer to god, to reason or comprehend something.
Hope you see the difference, for not believing in someone's god or God as referred to in general, and saying that there is No god at all.
Paganism, Voodoiism etc. too are atheists in strict sense, but have established their belief as religion, by defining their own god / deity etc.




