(November 8, 2016 at 2:34 am)ParagonLost Wrote:(November 8, 2016 at 1:53 am)Jesster Wrote: Let me clear this up for you more then. You don't have to prove something wrong to not believe in it. You either believe something or you do not. There is no middle ground. If your friend did not disbelieve, then that means that he believes. That would make him theistic, even if he doesn't apply the belief in the same way that you do. That is unless he does not believe and also doesn't know, in which case he would be an agnostic atheist.
Atheism has nothing to do with gnostism or agnostism (at least in the sense of the formal definitions as I stated before). Those words apply to knowledge, while theism and atheism only regard belief.
Thank you for that. Why are you personally an Agnostic?
As to why I am agnostic and an atheist, my answer is about the same for both. I've seen no reasonable evidence for any god claim. If anyone ever has something like that, I am open to changing my mind. So far nobody has had anything convincing for me. If a god does exist, I'm sure it could change my mind. Either it does not want to convince me or it is not there at all. The only reason I was a Christian before was because I was raised to be one by my parents.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
