the charge in Plutarch and the OP is that the atheist has faith and the superstitious doesn't.
Well this is just silly. Whether or not the OP or Plutarch are saying these things, it's just not true. I don't believe Plutarch is talking about this (maybe the OP is, who knows), but if you believe that to be the case, then I simply disagree with that claim.
Moreover, there's nothing the least bit nonsensical in attributing to the atheist either faith or the lack thereof, according to the first definition, i.e. that being used here.
Too bad I never addressed this issue at all. Your entire argument seems to be twisting my words to say what you want them to say. An atheist is perfectly capable of being able to trust and have confidence, for example, in people, I just don't see the correlation between religion at all, how it's even remotely a religious issue over whether or not a person is insecure.
If this is true, it certainly doesn't follow that an atheist cannot have trust or confidence at all, which is the issue at hand.
Of course it doesn't follow. I never said that it did. If that's the issue at hand, it's just logical fallacy and we shouldn't waste another reply on it.
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Date: 12/6/11 01:06 (UTC)Well this is just silly. Whether or not the OP or Plutarch are saying these things, it's just not true. I don't believe Plutarch is talking about this (maybe the OP is, who knows), but if you believe that to be the case, then I simply disagree with that claim.
Moreover, there's nothing the least bit nonsensical in attributing to the atheist either faith or the lack thereof, according to the first definition, i.e. that being used here.
Too bad I never addressed this issue at all. Your entire argument seems to be twisting my words to say what you want them to say. An atheist is perfectly capable of being able to trust and have confidence, for example, in people, I just don't see the correlation between religion at all, how it's even remotely a religious issue over whether or not a person is insecure.
If this is true, it certainly doesn't follow that an atheist cannot have trust or confidence at all, which is the issue at hand.
Of course it doesn't follow. I never said that it did. If that's the issue at hand, it's just logical fallacy and we shouldn't waste another reply on it.