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by simonblack 929 days ago
No. He DISbelieves in one more God than a Monotheist.

The Monotheist believes in one God (usually 'Yahweh, or 'Allah' or 'The Trinity'). But he disbelieves in all the Roman Gods, the Greek Gods, the Hindu Gods, the Persian Gods, the Aztec Gods, etc, etc. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that our Monotheist disbelieves in 205 'other Gods'. Our Atheist can disbelieve in 206 Gods, one more than our Monotheist disbelieves in.
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stephenr 928 days ago
Hmm. I don't know whether you edited your comment or I misread it, but I was sure you said "the Atheist believes in just one more God than the Monotheist"

The difference though I think is at the core: the monotheist believes in the concept of a god, they just believe the others that people worship are false gods.

The atheist doesn't believe in the concept of a god at all.

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simonblack 928 days ago
Sorry. I missed on replying to one of your points.

the monotheist believes in the concept of a god ... The atheist doesn't believe in the concept of a god at all.

That's a fallacy. For instance I could believe in the concept of Zeus, the Greek God. But that doesn't mean I do believe in the existence of Zeus himself.

Or in a more modern vein: I do believe in the concept that there are other worlds in the Universe with intelligent life who can travel in spaceships. But I certainly don't believe that UFOs that visit Earth exist. And I never will, unless there is incontrovertible proof that one that visits us exists. That's not a contradiction, I just think that there are uncrossable gulfs of time and distance that keep the rare, few and far between, intelligences apart. After all, it's only a few hundred years since the Atlantic kept the Europeans and the Aztecs apart, such that the Europeans with their white skin were considered to be unknown Gods by the Aztecs when first seen by the Aztecs.

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simonblack 928 days ago
Hmm. I don't know whether you edited your comment or I misread it, ..

You can be sure I had a moment of panic on seeing your reply that I had written 'believes' instead of 'disbelieves', but no, on checking, I saw that I had really written 'disbelieves' after all. :)

the monotheist believes [ .. } the others that people worship are false gods.

The atheist believes that all the Gods that people worship are false gods.

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