Atheists are not necessarily materialists or physicalists.Materialism's gaping hole is its brute-fact, and Materialists inability to define the "objective reality", "objective existence" and "actuality" that they attribute to this material universe, to argue for Materialism over Idealism.
Some Materialists declare that the world of their Materialism is absurd (They're called "absurdists"). Of course they're right about that. ...but it doesn't seem to make them question their Materialism.
I'm dismayed by the way this thread is going. Yes, Ram's post spoke of some negative things, but so, uniformly, do the shorter posts of our aggressive Atheists.
When I reply to aggressive Atheists here, I reply to at least some of the points that they make in their posts and which I disagree with. That's what a reply is. I don't use one-line dismissals of what they say. — Michael Ossipoff
No it doesn't. It seems like the other way around to me. Believing in a merciful God allows you to do whatever you want because you will just be forgiven, as long as you believe.To boil things down- atheism gives a person a pass to do whatever they want. — Ram
Atheists are not necessarily materialists or physicalists. — Harry Hindu
Materialism (whatever that means)...
...isn't the only kind of objective reality that can exist.
I think that materialism and idealism are both nonsense. As a matter of fact, there really isn't any real, meaningful distinction between them.
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