Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?

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I'm expecting the next move to be that those who are withholding judgement aren't atheists, they're "just agnostics". Which is wrong. If they are not yet convinced, they lack belief. They are weak agnostic atheists. (Weak being informal for not holding a positive contrary belief.) They also lack belief that there is no God. As I said, that is the case for me, regarding a generic intelligent creator. But if you want to call them "just agnostics", be my guest. It doesn't change the actual position.

Of course, it's often assumed that the creator of our reality is the final step. There's no reason this should be the case. Our "God" could be some muggins in another reality; and that reality may be the "final" one, or maybe it also has/had a parent reality. I don't know what the obsession is with there being exactly 1 level above our reality, no more, no less. And the continued use of the word "God" carries a lot of baggage, implying some sort of magic mystical thing. Again, there is no reason it has to be.

I'd respect Chad if he backed down here and admitted that in fact withholding judgement when you feel the evidence is inconclusive both for and against, is a respectable position for any claim.