Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

[David Gerard]

On 5 April 2011 12:26, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:

> Atheism is, generally, faith in the belief that there is no God. As opposed
> to merely not believing either way.


This is word-games with the word "faith", rather than a statement
about the world.

(Such word-games are commonplace in discussions of theism. The current
common usage of the word "faith" to mean "things I know are factually
incorrect but claim the right to assert the truth of anyway" is very
recent indeed, only coming out in the past few hundred years - i.e.,
when religion started being proven very badly factually incorrect at
every twist and turn. Before then, "faith" and "knowledge" were the
same thing - people didn't just believe in belief, they actually
*believed*, the way they believed the sun would come up the next
morning.)


- d.