04-01-2011, 11:51 AM
(04-01-2011, 11:27 AM)AriGold Wrote: Since you're such a fan of the dictionary Dick:
op·pose
[uh-pohz]
1.to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
2.to stand in the way of; hinder; obstruct.
3.to set as an opponent or adversary.
4.to be hostile or adverse to, as in opinion: to oppose a resolution in a debate.
5.to set as an obstacle or hindrance.
It's a verb (which by definition predicates or expresses action), moron.
Being an atheist requires no action. It is simply a belief that something does not exist. It's not opposing; it's failing to acknowledge.
By your logic, I bet you'd define "apathy" as opposing too...
Man this is brilliant, so you actually believe that argueing a postion leaves it as a non action?
Do you see how stupid this is? If being a christian and speaking your belief is considered "shoving your faith at others" an obvious action then on the same level being an atheist and speaking your dis belief would also by all reasonable thinking would be shoving your dis belif at people also an obvious action.
Both of them in action and both of them opposed to the other.
when argued in the same room neither are inert, and the atheist is in opposition to a God they deny.
The exchange satisfies the requirements for the use of the word "oppose".
sorry I can't agree with you.
It would make me as stupid as you.
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