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#1905

Non-theism, can also reject Atheism

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After 1 vote and with 6 points ahead, the winner is...

Nevets
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Description

My opponent can argue for Baked Beanz.
All i ask is for an honest debate.
Errors that remain unacknowledged after being pointed out become construed as lies.

Also i will probably use wikipedia as a foundation to launch a debate.
I may use other sources later on, if required.

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@zedvictor4

pantheism is neither atheism nor theism. Taoism is neither atheism nor theism considering in Taoism, we ARE gods if we are good. So your argument means: If you hate the color Black, you would 100% love the color white. In the truth, I love blue and hate any colors in the grayscale, and that means not everything is bipolar.

NONTHEISM or non-theism is a range of both religious and nonreligious attitudes characterized by the absence of espoused belief in a God or gods. Nontheism has generally been used to describe apathy or silence towards the subject of God and differs from an antithetical, explicit atheism. Nontheism does not necessarily describe atheism or disbelief in God; it has been used as an umbrella term for summarizing various distinct and even mutually exclusive positions, such as agnosticism, ignosticism, ietsism, skepticism, pantheism, atheism, strong or positive atheism, implicit atheism, and apatheism. It is in use in the fields of Christian apologetics and general liberal theology.

ATHEISM is, in the broadest sense, an absence of belief in the existence of deities.Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.Atheism is contrasted with theism,which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists.
(Both sources are from their wikipedia page titles)

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@Nevets

Anyone can reject anyone if they wish to.

Nonetheless I will accept this as an atheistic Easter challenge just to see how you run with it.

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@SkepticalOne

Yes, it can also be viewed as Atheism.
However there is scope for a non-theist to reject an Atheist, if they so wish.

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@Nevets

I agree: non-theism can reject atheism (even though it can also be viewed as atheism).

Atheism, /can/ also reject Atheism.

Agnosticism, pantheism, transtheism?

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@zedvictor4

The way i see it zedvictor4. this would then be your argument during the debate. That non-theism and Atheism are the samething.
I would be attempting to show you, that is not necessarily the case

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@Nevets

By definition non-theism is atheism.

So how do you see things differently?

As a Pagan-Taoist free thinker, I agree completely to this resolution and consider it a fact, not an opinion.