I like to say I’m a polyatheist (note the a) rather than [mono]atheist. I disbelieve in many gods, not just in one big god. Regular monotheism is hedgehoggy, regular polytheism is foxy. Disbelief inverts this. Atheism is foxy, polyatheism is hedgehoggy.
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Absence of theism via the 'a' implies disbelief in many gods, does it not? It's inherently general, no? I think only for Nietzsche is it "mono-god is dead," and even then, only in context. 'a'='without' + 'theism'='religion, in general'pic.twitter.com/oDrIr7r1CR
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Yes but I like to make it explicit since most atheistic positions are monoatheistic in practice and there’s interesting additional commitments in polytheistic positions that need countering. Monotheism is a simpler structure to refute basically.
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I can't really feel the difference between the two. Atheism comes from recognizing that a god (of any kind) is not a part that belongs to this particular puzzle of life. Does not matter how many nuts and bolts there are, they dont belong to a LEGO set as a class, not individually
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There aren’t many places in the world where you can experience proper polytheistic cultures/belief systems. They’re different. Saints/angels give Christianity a bit of polytheistic flavor but it’s not the same as full-blown polytheism. It’s like hybrid of monotheism and animism.
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And here little old me can’t even be sure that Nick Bostrom exists
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I can clear that one up, he doesn’t
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I always just assumed atheism was polyatheism
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