The Hayter-Braeloch Scale

[Edwardo Piet]

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I think Apatheist should be taken out. The sheer fact that you said "They may sometimes 'believe' and other times 'not believe' that gods exist, and question whether the issue has ultimate consequences." leads to the notion that they can switch sides and be persuaded in some fashion, which isn't an accurate description of the position.

When someone believes in God, they are a theist. You can't still be an apatheist while still retaining a belief in God, and the inverse is also true. If you have no belief in God, you are an atheist. The amount of time between belief and non-belief is ultimately inconsequential.

It's like being pregnant. At the time of pregnancy, the woman is in fact pregnant. It's a true dichotomy (pregnant, not pregnant). There is no in-between. You either believe in God or you don't. Being uncertain and changing your mind doesn't warrant its own name - nor does it translate in a sliding scale, as it can apply to literally anyone with a brain and a standard of persuasion.

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The above quote from tavarish (under the hide tags) seems quite convincing to me on the apatheist mattter...

Be nice if this doesn't slip out unanswered.

EvF

[SavageNerdz]

Well assuming it has to be a whole number, i would be a 5.0 (:

[King_Charles]

I'm a two

[Adjusted Sanity]

Definitly a two.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Came in late on this thread but I would add two categories, thouugh I don't know what I'd name them.
1)Theists who think it is self-evident that God exists.
2)Atheist who think it is blatantly obvious that god does not exist.

[Adjusted Sanity]

Okay now I'm a four. what the fuck?

[Anomalocaris]

I am not five, but so close as to make no difference.

[Jackalope]

I am a 4 with respect to the existence of deities in general. The question is too ill-defined to be meaningful. As properties of a particular deity are defined so as to be falsifiable, I approach 5.

I take issue with the definition of 3 (apatheist). One definition of apatheism is "I don't give a flying fuck whether deities exist or not.". Yeah, I said I was a 4, I'm also an apatheist according to the aforementioned definition.

[Reforged]

An alignment meter? What is this, a roleplaying game?
Are we gonna start getting Lvl 19 Agnostic Atheists hitting Lvl 15 Gnostic Theists with a +3 Occams Razor?
"Oh no, Drich casts Pascals Wager! All Atheists recieve a -1 to their patience score!"

Oh, I'm an Agnostic Atheist by the way. :-)