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Originally Posted by blankall
1) there is no god
2) there is no heaven
3) there is no soul
4) god is not a fish
5) god is not a my dad's old hunting trophy
Are these not all beliefs you must have to be an atheist? A system of beliefs even....isn't there a word for that?
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You didn't even get the first one right, atheism (like theism) is about belief, not knowledge.
Atheism isn't a belief system, it's either the lack of belief (for one kind of atheism), or a single belief (for another kind).
In the same way theism isn't a belief system, it's a single belief, that the proposition that a god exists is true.
Being a theist doesn't dictate one believes in heaven, in a soul, or what form a particular god may take. Those are parts of a larger belief system.