(August 8, 2015 at 12:13 am)vixene Wrote:(August 8, 2015 at 12:11 am)Esquilax Wrote: So, I'm sorry, but... you're going to dismiss christianity because of, and I quote, "too many logical fallacies," and then you're going to turn around and say, completely without irony, "you can't prove that my higher being doesn't exist!"...yes
Seriously?
Ok realistically, I don't really think there's a being up there, I just accept that it's a possibility.
Hello and welcome to the forum!
You don't have to tell anyone anything about your particular beliefs if you don't want to.
Now, saying that something is a possibility is different from saying that you believe it is actual. If you are totally agnostic and have no belief one way or the other, you are a weak atheist. If you believe that there is such a being, then you are a theist of some type.
Sometimes, people use the word "theism" in a restrictive sense, and sometimes not; as I have posted about this before, I will simply quote myself:
(August 7, 2015 at 8:44 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You can believe in a god, and not be a theist. If you believe in the abrahamic god, you're a theist. If you believe in a deistic god, you aren't.
"Theism" is sometimes used in a restrictive sense which fits with your ideas, but it also is used to just mean the belief in a god. In that sense, a deist is a theist. See:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theism?s=t
See also:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ish/theism
Note that "especially" does not mean "exclusively."
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
