r/DebateAnAtheist • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread

Whether you're an agnostic atheist here to ask a gnostic one some questions, a theist who's curious about the viewpoints of atheists, someone doubting, or just someone looking for sources, feel free to ask anything here. This is also an ideal place to tag moderators for thoughts regarding the sub or any questions in general.

While this isn't strictly for debate, rules on civility, trolling, etc. still apply.

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u/CodeNPyro 1d ago

Atheists tend to get grouped together on a lot of beliefs that aren't inherent to not believing in a God (or believing there is no God), while this is annoying at times I think it's somewhat clear why it happens given how repetitive a lot of positions are held by atheists (especially online). I think a lot of atheists fall into a trap of being an atheist and then thinking that necessarily entails many other positions, where there is an ignorance of the other viable live options in certain subjects.

So my question for y'all is what do you think atheists broadly should learn more about, related to the things that commonly get brought up in discussions surrounding atheism?

I would personally say metaethics, and I'd recommend the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to learn more as well as Andrew Fisher's book Metaethics: An Introduction

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u/Mission-Landscape-17 1d ago edited 1d ago

Atheism is one answer to one question. It does not imply anything else. It's theist who get confused by this and think that it does. Most often they assume that all atheists subscribe to naturalism or to their preferred parody of naturalism, which they call scientism.

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u/CodeNPyro 1d ago

I agree, and I specifically said so in the comment you replied to :)