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Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
AgnosticMan123 Offline
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Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:01 pm
Can anyone here persuade or convert me from being agnostic to being atheist? Smile
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:03 pm
They're not mutually exclusive terms. I am an agnostic atheist.

A/gnosticism has to do with knowledge; A/theism has to do with belief.
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:03 pm
I am agnostic. And I am atheist. There's no contradiction in that.
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:03 pm
They don't believe in agnostics.
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:07 pm (This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 2:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 19, 2016 at 2:01 pm)AgnosticMan123 Wrote: Can anyone here persuade or convert me from being agnostic to being atheist? Smile

Other than you? Probably not. I suppose we could work on that together, you and I. We'd need to know why you believe in god, first, to understand what you find compelling.

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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:10 pm (This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 2:11 pm by robvalue.)
Hello, welcome!

Chances are, you're probably already what we would call "atheist". I explain about atheism and agnosticism on my website. Some people simply use words in different ways, which is fine, as long as we're all clear what they mean.

I have also made a video which explains the ins and outs here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d34BmGnrUEI
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:13 pm (This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 2:17 pm by Cyberman.)
(May 19, 2016 at 2:03 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: They don't believe in agnostics.

God is an agnostic?

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that" and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:14 pm
(May 19, 2016 at 2:03 pm)The_Empress Wrote: They're not mutually exclusive terms. I am an agnostic atheist.

A/gnosticism has to do with knowledge; A/theism has to do with belief.

By agnostic I meant I am neither a believer nor disbeliever that there is a God.  To me maybe there is a God and maybe there isn't.

Can you persuade me that there isn't a God?
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:14 pm (This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 2:15 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
Atheism isn't about proving or persuading someone that there isn't a God... atheism is simply not accepting the claim that "A god exists." If you don't accept the claim "A God exists," as true or likely true, then you're an atheist.
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RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 19, 2016 at 2:15 pm
(May 19, 2016 at 2:03 pm)abaris Wrote: I am agnostic. And I am atheist. There's no contradiction in that.

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