Awareness of our Creator (or conscious denial of our Creator) would be a definitive feature of our conscious awareness.
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Just... Why? Believing in a creator isn't something that exists a priori in someones head. Otherwise we wouldn't need all those religions and their missionaries. Everyone would already "know" the truth (it would still be debatable whether it was actual truth or just an evolved feature of our brain, but that's beside the point). And not believing in a specific creator (or a creator at all) doesn't equal "conscious denial" by the way.
But is unconscious denial (that is, never having heard of god) different in your eyes? Just curious.
I don't consider my atheism to be conscious "denial". It's more like conscious "magical sky-daddy made everything? You've gotta be kidding!" It's not denial of a "creator". It's rejection of nonsensical mythology in general, with no particular animus toward your myth of choice.
@Kanna
For the OP there is an obvious, but illogical difference, in his eyes there seemingly is no "unconscious denial", god exists and everyone knows that a priori. From that he follows that everyone not believing must be doing so consciously, "denying the truth". Otherwise his comment doesn't make any sense. That is a lot of bull as I've said in my first comment.
Suppose someone started claiming they had a near death experience where they saw that deism is correct:
Yes there is a god that made life, the universe and everything. But no, this god doesn't watch over us, couldn't care less about anyone's diets or who has sex with whom. There's no heaven, no hell. The creator is like a model kit-obsessed kid who thinks it's the building that's fun, the finished model is of no interest and is just put away somewhere to gather dust. To this creator, our universe and everything/everyone in it is that model.
Would that make Alan Burns finally burn up?
“Awareness of our Creator (or conscious denial of our Creator) would be a definitive feature of our conscious awareness.”
So, as an atheist veteran, you’re saying you wuold be classified closer to a Taliban warlord, than to me. Because belief in a creator is definitive.
Not nationality, language, education level, typing speed, music tastes, Sudoku abilities, or skill at story problems.
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