[ExI] Pascals wager

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 11:05 AM Ben via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Atheists do NOT *believe there are no gods*. That is not atheism.
> Atheists *don't believe there are gods* instead. Big difference.
>
> Yes, I'm sure there are people who call themselves atheists and say they
> have a belief in the non-existence of gods, but that is not what atheism is
> defined as. It's non-belief in the existence of gods. They look similar
> ideas, but if you look at them properly, you can see they are worlds apart.
> Believing that something is not true is a different thing to not believing
> that something is.
>

I don't suppose you could explain the difference?  I can easily see how
people would see "believe there are no gods" and "don't believe there are
gods" as logically equivalent.
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