<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 11:05 AM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Atheists do NOT <i>believe there are no gods</i>. That is not
atheism. Atheists <i>don't believe there are gods</i> instead. Big
difference.<br>
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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.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div>