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Re:Life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back by keiferski on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:06AM (#41879079)
I don’t really want to repeat what I already wrote, but just to sum this up again: yes, the mere label of atheist doesn’t imply a specific belief system. But in actual practice, in the real world and not merely in definitions, it tends to indicate certain groupings of beliefs.

In other words, the definitional concept of atheist doesn’t imply a specific belief set (except in the choice of using such a word to define oneself), but the sociological definition definitely does. If we looked at various communities calling themselves atheists, they certainly have beliefs in common.

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Re:Life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back by pessimizer on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:03PM (#41883471)
> the sociological definition definitely does.

It definitely does not.

> If we looked at various communities calling themselves atheists, they certainly have beliefs in common.

The lack of belief in gods. There are types of Hinduism that have always been atheistic.

Believing in god is like having blue eyes. There's nothing necessarily shared amongst people who don't have blue eyes other than a lack of blue eyes.

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