rone at ennui.org (definitely what) writes: > Greg Schwartz writes: > I'd say that athiesm is not a religion, and you can firmly be an athiest > without absolute proof of the non-existance of god/s... if you absolutely > lack faith, than you are an athiest. > > That makes no sense at all. You can have faith in something other > than a god and still be an atheist. > > The question seems to be: Can the certain denial of any god's > existence on part of atheists be called faith? I think so. I am not > alone in this belief (HA!). English doesn't have the moods, or something, for precise discussion in this area. The Christian god (or any other god) doesn't exist for me in the same way that Doc Smith's intelligent, immortal, energy beings don't exist -- they seem unlikely, and there isn't the slightest evidence for their existence. Since it's impossible to prove a negative, I can't farther than that on *anything*. Either one *could* exist, certainly. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info