<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Ben wrote:  <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">That's not the correct definition of an atheist. Atheism isn't about knowledge of gods, it's about belief in gods. Specifically, a lack of belief in them. Which is a different thing to /knowing/ they don't exist.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I am on several sections of Quora and find it fascinating.  All levels of intelligence and education there.  It has been amazing to me the number of people who ask how atheists can have any kind of morality outside of religion, and even assuming that we don't!  We sadly need religion taught in schools, despite the biases and evils that can occur.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Ben Zaiboc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net" target="_blank">ben@zaiboc.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">From <a href="https://turingchurch.net/prisoner-of-bad-philosophy-carl-sagan-couldnt-allow-himself-to-hope-a037ba0705e6?gi=5f3557aa6264" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://turingchurch.net/priso<wbr>ner-of-bad-philosophy-carl-<wbr>sagan-couldnt-allow-himself-<wbr>to-hope-a037ba0705e6?gi=<wbr>5f3557aa6264</a>:<br>
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"... an atheist (one who knows that God doesn’t exist)"<br>
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That's not the correct definition of an atheist. Atheism isn't about knowledge of gods, it's about belief in gods. Specifically, a lack of belief in them. Which is a different thing to /knowing/ they don't exist.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Ben Zaiboc</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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