[lbo-talk] theists vs atheists

[B.]

As others have pointed out, the burden is on the
person who asserts the presence of the supernatural,
not on the person who is without a belief in it.
"Atheism" simply means "without a belief in God" [or
theism]. It doesn't mean "asserts there is no God,"
though many atheists do that, too. What Hitchens has
called "anti-theism" or even misotheism is the active
denial or assertion of nothing in God's place. Atheism
is not the assertion of something but the lack of a
belief.

Those who believe in the supernatural have yet to make
a sound case to atheists. And it is the religionists
who must make the case, not the atheists.

-B.

Frank Scott wrote: 


> the battle between these two  sects is very much
like that between 
> democrats and republicans...two sides of the same
coin...
> 
> theists "know" the unknowable, while atheists "
know" the unknowable...
> 
> meanwhile, some of us have to deal with political
economics...
> 
> fs