(August 6, 2016 at 10:16 pm)robvalue Wrote: I don't understand your objections Wiploc, sorry.
Edit, wait: now I get it, at least the second part. You're making the distinction between what someone believes and what they profess to believe. You are indeed correct. Someone who answers "no" to both questions is professing to be a weak atheist. They may actually not be.
Bingo!
Quote:As to the first part, if someone doesn't know what to believe, I'd imagine that means they have no firm beliefs either way. I'm not sure what else you think it could mean.
Note the [humor] tags. I was making (or trying to make) a joke.
I'm a strong atheist, so I disagree with theists: I think they believe the wrong thing. If they believed the right thing, they would agree with me. Therefore, if they think theism is the right thing to believe, then they don't know what is the right thing to believe. Therefore, they don't know what to believe.
A joke isn't funny if you explain it. This one, apparently, wasn't funny even before it was explained.
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