You are a blip in history
Atheists are as old as time and predate religion as we know it
In order to have atheism, the concept of theos must first exist. You can’t have an ism if no one knows what the thing is that its suffixed to. So there’s no atheism before religion or at least one theos.
Just like Tinklipism. What is that? Who knows? No one’s invented the idea of a Tinklip yet, whatever that may be. Definitely no Atinklipism yet either.
That’s just how isms be.
No. Atheism is not defined as opposition to religion, it’s absence of religion. That means that before religion, there was only atheism.
Before humans, the concept of “human” didn’t exist. Yet we can still say that the animals living before humans were non-humans, just like non-human animals today are.
No. Atheism is not defined as opposition to religion,
Reply to the wrong comment? I literally said nothing even close that that.
And before religion there was no atheism or theism or any other ism involving.divinity.
Atheism does not mean “without theism”.
Their point was just that humans existed for a long time before theism was invented. Atheism is just a word to describe a lack of theism. Which there was definitely a lack of before theism existed.
That’s not how isms work and that’s definitely not what atheism means.
A+theosism. No. Atheos+ism. Yes.
It is the ism of being without god. The concept of god must exist in order for the person to think about and decide there isn’t one, ergo atheism. Theism if they decide there’s at least one.
There are other words that exist for what you’re trying to explain.
It’s mostly semantic but the usage of atheism as the absence of theism is quite new and not really used in philosophy in that manner. In the end it shouldn’t really matter. It mostly matters for the religious that want to define you themselves instead of listening.
Oh shit, I’ll be right back, got to go tell my wife and kid they’re not real and it turns out I’m gay.
Not to mention, all of us atheists most likely came from religious backgrounds. Atheism isn’t fuckin genetic.
Hey! I’m not gay. I mean, yeah, I’d do Henry Cavill but that doesn’t count.
Question:
The reasoning in the commenter’s argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it:
A) Incorrectly assumes that atheism is a hereditary trait that can be subject to natural selection and extinction.
B) Fails to acknowledge that the existence of atheists with children contradicts the claim that atheists do not reproduce.
C) Makes a hasty generalization that all atheists share the same sexual orientation and emotional state, without sufficient evidence.
D) Mistakenly treats antinatalism as a universal characteristic of atheists rather than a personal philosophical choice that varies among individuals.
E) Overlooks the possibility that atheism can continue to exist independently of the reproductive choices of current atheists, through the persuasion of others or change of belief over time.
