"Atheists dont believe in anything"

We've all heard this before: "atheists dont believe in anything," and of course that is not true. Unfortunately, I hear this all too often. Since beliefs are an individual thing (especially among the secular community), I pose the question to you: What do you believe in?

I'd love to hear as many thoughts as possible. Hopefully this discussion will generate a diverse enough pool that it would be worthwhile to link this as a response to statements like the one above.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on January 3, 2013 at 11:42am

I was pretty suicidal when I found out Pluto wasn't a really a dog!

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Permalink Reply by Marc on January 3, 2013 at 1:10pm

Arch, don't even get me started on the Donald Duck no pants thing.

Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on January 3, 2013 at 1:38pm

Not to mention the inconsistency of Pluto being a dog in canine form, while Goofy is a dog in human form, so I won't mention it.

Permalink Reply by SteveInCO on January 8, 2013 at 7:55am

Are you trying to tell me there is no doG?

Permalink Reply by James Cox on January 4, 2013 at 1:00am

Is 20 years long enough to determine failure? What difference do atheists make to this evaluation?

Which came first 'absolute faith' or the determination of failure? Having 'absolute faith', is not the same as 'confidence'. Coming here to get 'absolute faith', seems like a rather foolish enterprise.

If you are trying to get an improvement in your degree of 'confidence' in your belief, this might also not be the place. We are not here for that process.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on January 2, 2013 at 8:48pm

Far more so than belief, right?

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Permalink Reply by Marc on January 2, 2013 at 9:01pm

David,

Do you count your change?

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Permalink Reply by _Robert_ on January 2, 2013 at 9:09pm

I use oscilloscopes and logic analyzers to gather evidence about the performance of my electrical circuits. I'll tell my customers the data is merely temporal and subjective. Save me a lot of trouble, "just have faith" I'll tell them !

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Permalink Reply by David Henson on January 3, 2013 at 12:14am

Marc,

No.

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Permalink Reply by Marc on January 3, 2013 at 7:58am

So you're saying you give someone a hundred bucks for an item and take it on faith that you got the correct change?

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on January 2, 2013 at 9:05pm

What's realistic about an inclination toward religion (you're a Jehovah's Witness, right?)?

Science is a method, not a body of knowledge. Religion is a body of dogma. The difference between science and religion is probably what you view as it's primary flaw: it's changeable whereas you prefer something solid and unchanging, even if it isn't true.

The difference between religion and science is science's capacity to correct itself. The inability to do so is why religion is worthless.