(May 19, 2016 at 2:01 pm)AgnosticMan123 Wrote: Can anyone here persuade or convert me from being agnostic to being atheist?
It's simple - "Are you a theist?"
If "YES" - then you are a theist, (tautology);
If "NO" - then you are an atheist, (also a tautology).
Anything else about you may or may not follow from that.
Theism / atheism is about belief.
Gnosticism / agnosticism is about, (alleged), knowledge, (or lack of it).
It is quite non-contradictory for a person to be an agnostic theist, (or alternatively, as some people, myself included, view themselves as agnostic atheists).
It is possible to show by evidence and logic, that some gods, (as they are conceived / defined), could not possibly exist.
I do not know how to show by evidence and logic, (ie. prove), that no gods at all exist. Yet I have no good reason to believe that any do.
Hence . . . agnostic atheist . . . no belief and no proof, but buckets of thought and the requirement for good evidence and reasons, BEFORE belief.
I live without belief, and so without fear of any god. I live as if there are no gods. A lifetime thus far, has not caused me to find nor revealed to me, any good evidence and reasons for god-belief, and the longer that goes on, it seems that the more comfortable I am with the idea that there really are no gods whatsoever.
How does all that sit with your own situation, AgnosticMan123 ? I suggest that you make your own conclusions about your position.
There are no atheists in terrorist training camps.
