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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
What if you're nothing. Is that aetheist? I don't get why people who have no set of beliefs get categorized as 'believers in nothing'. I don't have a religious bone in my body, but I don't feel like I follow some kind of aetheist belief structure. Why is believing nothing (aetheism I guess) considered a 'religion' by people? I don't get it.
If you don't really care about religion/spirituality at all, are you an aetheist?
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If you are in the "don't know, don't care" category then you are not athiest; you are agnostic. What exactly is the athiestic belief structure?
I don't know where exactly I fall. It's somewhere along the lines of "I don't think there is a God. But on the off chance that there _is_ an all-powerful-supreme-being then it doesn't much matter since he/she/it isn't worth worshipping".
Athiesm is considered a "religion" because some believe that it is faith-based. To believe that there is *NOT* a God takes as much faith as to believe that there *IS* a God. There may be no solid proof that God exists; there is also no solid proof that God does not exist. It's sorta like aliens. There is no solid proof that there is life on other planets, but to say that they don't exist is taking a solid leap of faith.