What is atheism?
This might be hard to understand if you live in a culture where god-belief is common & feels natural.
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But not all cultures have the notion of God as part of the cultural furniture.
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that's fine. Not all of them believe in a round earth either. Lots of things can be culturally suppressed.
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You seem to think the god idea is universally & eternally relevant. Mightn't it just die out in some cultures as ideas do?
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it might. But they doesn't make it true or false. And it doesn't make God belief good or bad. It's irrelevant.
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Exactly. That's what I mean. No values to it so how can there be psychology to it?
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This is what post-theistic societies are like. The idea is irrelevant. It cld become relevant again later if eg immigration
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or if suppression of theistic intuitions and questions somehow fails
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If they get triggered again. Religious belief drops when psychological & social needs met by society. If they weren't...
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the point was never to define atheism with psychology, but to study the unique psychology of atheists.
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But how does that work? There must be something they have in common.What wld my husband have in common with say, a Buddhist?
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What wld he have in common with me. I was religious & gave much thought to concept of 'God.' He's never thought abt it.
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if you two both reject theism, that's something in common. Perhaps you two even reject agnosticism. Maybe you despise religion.
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As I said, no. He is just not interested at all. Religion has never impacted his life. It impacted mine so I have psychology
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I don't think u can find psych similarities in ppl who lack belief in same things. Ppl who believe in same things, yes.
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I share humanism with my husband so similar psychological stuff there.
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ah I see. The lack of belief misdefinition. Doesn't fit with what we know today. Common myth on the internet though.
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