RE: Can you persuade me from Agnostic to Atheist?
May 20, 2016 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 12:59 pm by wiploc.)
(May 20, 2016 at 6:53 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(May 19, 2016 at 4:57 pm)AgnosticMan123 Wrote: My source says that atheist means one who believes that there isn't a God.
Just so you know, that's not 'atheism', that's of 'antitheism' (a.k.a. strong/gnostic atheism).
As an antitheist to every type of god that's yet been proposed (but agnostic towards the deistic types of god), I could have a go at persuading you but first you'll have to define your god.
Don't conflate those; they are three different things.
Antitheists are against theism. They think it would be better if theists deconverted.
Gnostics know (or think they know) whether gods exist. You can't be a gnostic weak atheist, because that would mean you knew something without believing it. So any gnostic atheist is a strong atheist, specifically one who believes gods do not exist, and who also knows (or thinks she knows) that gods do not exist.
Strong atheism is just believing that gods do not exist.
