• Feyd@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    But it’s not the lack of a belief that any god exists. Not believing in something doesn’t get a name.

    It literally is. You are just straight up wrong.

    Atheism is specifically a response to the societal pressure to have a religion

    The word existing is a response to the need to commonly describe it, but fundamentally it is no different than you other examples that don’t have words. The existence of nonexistence of other words is not evidence of anything other than the frequency that they’re useful.

    OP’s actions

    Probably didn’t even happen, but even if they did it literally has nothing to do with the definition of atheism.

    bald is a hairstyle.

    This literally has nothing to do with describing belief.

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      The very fact that we’re having this conversation means there’s more to the story than “nothing.” You’re being obtuse. A lack of belief, while living in a society that expects it, becomes something notable, and that notability is more than nothing. Just like being bald is only notable in a world where hair is expected, being atheist in a world where beliefs are expected is notable. Being notable is a societal tangible thing, even if “not believing” would otherwise not be for any other topic. Being atheist would be as empty as you’re describing if we as a people didn’t talk about religion, but in reality we do, so it carries weight, which affects behavior.