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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

Atheists do not assert that there is 100 percent certainty that god does not exist.  What we say is that, absent any evidence to support it, there is no reason to retain the hypothesis.[/quote]

I'm not sure I get the distinction involved in "no reason to retain the hypothesis."  You seem to be saying there may be a <1% chance there's a God (in other words, as you said above, you are not 100% certain there is NO god).  You don't find this 1% worth pursuing or "retaining."  Which is fine with me.  However, in the absence of 100% certainty, this still means you're an agnostic rather than an atheist.[/quote]

No, it doesn't.  People on this thread clearly don't understand what atheist means. it means that I live my life on the working assumption that there is no god, just as I live my life on the assumption that the earth is a sphere, that the earth orbits the sun, and lots of other things that I am not 100 percent sure of, but sure enough to live my life on that basis.[/quote]

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