Tcg wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:37 am
Well, no. Just because they attend social functions based on the society around them doesn't mean they are wavering on their atheism.
Nor are the atheists that I know around here...... by 'weak atheist' I don't think that they are wavering in their atheism, I just mean that they have an opinion about about atheism like they might have an opinion about how to grow grass, or catch a fish. It's no big deal to them.
If one of my grandchildren decided to get married in a Christian church and I choose to attend, it wouldn't mean I was no longer an atheist or an atheist doubting my position. I'd totally simply be an atheist attending a Christian wedding of my grandchild.
Well, sure...... local atheists around here who attend religious functions probably don't do that as any statement about their atheism either, but I reckon that many of them would
not go much further than 'Gods? Me? Nah!' and turn on the telly, or buy another beer, or go out shopping, whatever. Weak atheism, just as most Christians around here are weak-Christians...it's just not a big deal to them.
It's like when I receive pamphlets in the mail from JWs. Reading them doesn't somehow turn me into a JW. I'm simply reading them, usually for the amusement factor.
It's good to laugh. One or two neighbours (some Atheists and some Trinitarian Christians) have told me about how they enjoy leaning on their door jambs when the JWs call, with their 'So you reckon that......' responses and clever arguments..... Yeah...lots of folks enjoy a visit from the JWs, but around here theism and atheism alike are not followed strongly by the majority, imo. Weak atheism...weak Christianity.
Neither the church wedding nor the JW pamphlets turn me into "not an atheist."
Tcg
Yep..... around here nobody gives much of a hoot either way, it's not a big deal.
WHY? Well, I just asked my wife about all this when I saw your post..... she is something between an agnostic and an atheist, I reckon, she just doesn't believe in any gods. And whilst she strongly supports gender and sexuality freedoms and rights she isn't a hot feminist. So I asked how she would feel if she lived in a land where fundamentalist theists were making the laws, controlling her freedoms both as a women and as a person and she thought for a very short time and answered....
'I would be a rock-hard 'n' red-hot feminist and atheist.' ....... oh yes.
That's why, around here, women (and most blokes) expect total gender and sexuality freedom but they tend not be red-hot about their beliefs about religion or feminism..... because they live in a land where they don't need to today. Weak atheism (and feminism).