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Originally Posted by Katczinsky  Then you are atheist, my friend. (a-theism, Or "without theism", simply a 'lack of belief in god').
Me too, yet I have the honesty to admit I am atheist.
Atheism is merely a lack of a positive. It is not the assertion of a positive itself.
I am agnostic only insofar as agnosticism is a posit onto our existences that we do not ultimately know. But because I do not know for sure if there is a god, I do not believe in him, ergo I am atheist. |
There is one big difference between myself and an athiest; and that is an athiest denies the possibility of a deity existing. I do not (though I find it unlikely). Webster's: athe·ist one who believes that there is no deity
I don't believe there is any way of knowing that there is no deity and therefore this information is just as false as claiming that there is a God. ag·nos·tic a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god I am a non-theist, that is for sure. I am NOT an atheist. --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence.
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