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Poll: Would you prefer to be an agnostic theist, or a gnostic atheist?
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4 30.77%
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My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
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My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
To other atheists who are, like myself, agnostic atheists... if you had to choose, would you prefer to keep your agnosticism and yet be a theist, or would you prefer to be an atheist but a gnostic one?

I find it a bit of an unpleasant choice to say the least but I think I'd personally rather be an agnostic theist than a gnostic atheist... since I find gnosticism kind of arrogant, to be based on fallacious reasoning and kind of caught up in one's self ('in their own world').

EDIT: I think perhaps I could extend the topic to all agnostics not just agnostic atheists, and should extend the question of if you'd rather change your religious position (theism/atheism) or your knowledge position (gnosticism/agnosticism) if you had to make the choice... hmm...

EvF
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
I do not consider myself an agnostic atheist because although I cannot prove or disprove the existence of god, I am convinced that the whole concept of god was a creation of man. I am that rare atheist that is 100 percent sure of the nonexistence of god. Although my belief is subjective when weighing the possible choices I find logic on the side of atheism. I am comfortable as a militant atheists and don't find it necessary to try to prove a negative at all.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition

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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
I am 99.9999999999999999999999999% sure there is no god. Just like there is no Santa or fairies or ghosts or Bigfoot or devil or......................................
binnyCoffee
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
I don't think we have enough physical proof yet to be able to say 100% that god(s) do not exist, so if I had to choose between only agnostic theist and gnostic atheist I'd have to choose agnostic theist until we had more proof.
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
What would proof of not-god look like I wonder?
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
(December 18, 2009 at 4:21 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: What would proof of not-god look like I wonder?

Everything but god Wink

I'm not sure really. An explanation of where the matter came from before the big bang would help though.
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
Agnosticism is a more powerful concept to me than simple belief, so I would rather be an agnostic theist than sacrifice my intellectual integrity.
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
Seems a moot question - as personally I can't see any justification for gnosticism outside delusion. We're all either agnostic or apathetic... there is no other option.
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
Unless you're delusional? Tongue
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: My Fellow Specifically Agnostic Atheists
I'm apathetic to the question posed.
I used to tell a lot of religious jokes. Not any more, I'm a registered sects offender.
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