(August 7, 2015 at 6:16 pm)pool Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 5:58 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Ah... not necessarily.
Theist: a person who believes in a god or gods.
Atheist: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in a god or gods.
Notice that neither has to do with knowledge; that's a/gnosticism's job.
(bolded words mine)
I think we're back to my question again xD which is,what exactly is a god?
Right. I was simply responding to this strawman:
"So basically a theist is someone that would respond "Because God." to explain something which cannot be explained and an atheist is someone that would respond "i don't know" to something which cannot be explained?"
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.