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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An atheist knows a thousand little reasons why God, singular, cannot exist (fossils, spaghetti monster, anthropic principle). A polyatheist knows 1 big reason why *any* god or multigodplex cannot exist. One of my few epistemic commitments that is hedgehoggy is polyatheism.
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I can’t precisely articulate my 1 big polyatheistic disbelief (and feel no particular need to do so, since I think theism/atheism debates are futile+pointless) but suffice it to say: polyatheism is as much stronger a position than atheism as atheism is stronger than agnosticism.
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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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