Quote Originally Posted by wmrs2 View Post
No! There are no real atheist. Anyone who believes in absolute truth is not an atheist. Without absolute truth there are no premises for thinking, which means there is no logic which always depends on premises. An atheist by definition is a person who believes in no premises and can not think. None of us are like that. Get over it, thinking is what makes you human and in the image of God, like it or not.
Seems the sport of the day taking a proper swing at this statement. Ill really try not to because i can tell someone is pretty adament about it.

"There are no real atheist" Theist being people "with a god" thus atheists being people without a god. You could state the one cannot be defined by missing a feature (ie god) and thus cant be atheist. Thats a semantic argument thou, based merely on theist being the norm.

"Anyone who belives in absolute truth" This may make sense as an argument if you belive you have the absolute truth. Beliving however contradicts the wery concept of absolute truth. Simply because if something was absolutely true noone could possibly dispute it. "Faith" or "belief" implies that you made a more or less educated guess along the way, so by definition you dont know whatever truth you belive. (pretty much your own statement on atheism comming back to haunt you)

"Without absolute truth there are no premises for thinking" Id say the excact opposite. Given the knowledge of what is absolutely true, thinking (that is considering things from more than one angle) would meen defying your knowledge of a true angle. Should said truth be religius in nature, thinking would be blasphemy.

"Get over it, thinking is what makes you human and in the image of God, like it or not" Now i may have misread my bible more specifically the book of genesis. Man may have been created in the image of god atleas according to your source. However man lost his innocence with that whole apple deal. General consensus in cristian society states that if your not thinking (or not thinking right) your innocent. Thats why the court will let you go if you succesfully plea insanity.
Thus thinking wasnt part of the creation, but rather something we stole and got punished for stealing.

This whole mess could lead to the idea that thinking is against god. That infact accepting whatever truth you found and never applying thought or motive to anything is the only way to fly.
However you could read the whole getting kicked out of paradise only to come back once your good enuff. As an incentive for learning everything about gods creation in order to please god.
That would make you a scientist, being a scientist again meens you have to question your basic theory. In this case the belief in absolute truth and god.