(June 24, 2021 at 3:40 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You've told us that you don't believe in gods, and you don't know whether or not there are gods. That's what an agnostic atheist is telling you when they say "Hi, I'm an agnostic atheist"..which is what nine out of ten (if not more) people on these boards and anywhere else will tell you.
- that's what the descriptor accurately describes. A person who does not believe, and does not know.
Fwiw, it is a weird tick of language, as atheism as a term was used in opposition to the prevailing form of god belief at the time, theism. Could have been called anything, we could call it a ham sandwich today. I am a ham sandwich, and by a ham sandwich I mean a person who doesn't believe in gods, like you.
That may be okay for you...but it is not okay for me.
I do not use the descriptor "atheist" and I do not want people who do use it to insist that I am one of them...by virtue of a definition based on an erroneous notion of the word's etymology.
