The Incoherence of Lack-theism
Previously in " Can Non-Resistant Non-Belief be Compatible with Atheism " I write " as defined in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (SEoP) as "(A)n atheist is a person who maintains that there is no God, that is, that the sentence “God exists” expresses a false proposition." If you are a lack-theist, you are simply confused; the claim of atheism is the negation of the theistic claim! If you want to state your psychological state, that is, you lack belief in God (you don't possess the proposition God exists), that isn't a positive claim and frankly removes you from the debate. Your brain state, like a weather pattern, isn't a debatable position and doesn't demonstrate a rationally held position, it's just how your brain happens to be at this point. By this logic, a stone lacks belief in the proposition God exists. In principle this can't be a legitimate position of a NRNB, as that too is a brain state, not a rational position, in ...