If you were ever a theist...

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I miss DeistPaladin. He took a pragmatic approach, and declared himself a deist partly for practical reasons.

In debate, he could then skip all the nonsense about "God does exist" and go straight to "What's this got to do with a character in a story book". I've since copied his approach and sometimes just "give" people a deist God for the sake of argument, although I don't identify as a deist myself.

Of course, being an atheist doesn't necessarily mean believing there is no God. Just being as yet unconvinced that there is, is still normally called (weak) atheism. Although I understand some people feel more comfortable referring to this as "just agnostic". Weak atheism goes along with my ignostic position, because I can't believe something doesn't exist if I don't even understand what the fuck you're even talking about. But neither can I be convinced it exists, hence weak atheism.