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Originally Posted by David Frost
we being aetheists? thats being somewhat stereotypical. not every single aetheist has moral values just the same as not every single christian or jew or muslim or what have you has moral values regardless if they are tied to religion.
i will not try to change ones views because i respect them fully, but you cannot say that believing in a higer power is weak. i dont believe that being aethiest, agnostic, full on bible beater, is a measure of ones strength by any means, it is a belief. thats all.
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There's a difference between aethism and non-believing though. Aethists hold the value that there is not, and cannot be any form of spiritual power, whereas non-believers simply contend that they do not know whether there is or isn't, as God cannot be either proven or disproven. The story of creation in the Bible has been disproven by the existence of fossils and of the evolution of the natural world, however to disprove the existence of God and to disprove the factual background of the Bible are two wildly different things.
I'd wager that the majority of people who don't believe in God are non-believers rather than being aethists, as aethism takes the same amount of "faith" (or lack of) as following a religion.