<div><div dir="auto">Ben, then how to explain the taliban-like intolerance of militant atheists? The only explanation I can find is that they thinkvthey know.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On 2018. Aug 3., Fri at 23:21, Ben Zaiboc <<a href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net">ben@zaiboc.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>From <br>
<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/prisoner-of-bad-philosophy-carl-sagan-couldnt-allow-himself-to-hope-a037ba0705e6?gi=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 <br>
knowledge of gods, it's about belief in gods. Specifically, a lack of <br>
belief in them. Which is a different thing to /knowing/ they don't exist.<br>
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-- <br>
Ben Zaiboc<br>
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