(June 5, 2011 at 8:25 pm)SpatiumTempusque Wrote: I don't claim to know anything but I believe there are no Gods. Atheism is an assumption taken
as fact, that's why I'm not an atheist.
IMnsHO, everyone is an agnostic. There is no evidence, so it is impossible to KNOW whether god(s)
exist or do not exist.
That's kind of irrelevant. By the same idea, I could say that it is impossible to KNOW whether
leprechauns, unicorns, fairies, Santa Claus, vampires, ghosts, or zombies exist. There's no absolute
PROOF that they don't exist, but until such time that there is proof that they do exist, I fail to believe
in them. I don't say that I'm agnostic about fairies, or that I'm agnostic about ghosts, or agnostic
about Santa. I do not believe in them.
If you're an agnostic, you just don't know whether God exists or not. So, the question goes back to
whether you BELIEVE that God exists or not, without evidence, and with whatever tales, books,
or stories are around about God.
If you believe that God exists, you are a theist.
If you do not believe that God exists, you are an atheist.
If you have not (yet) heard of God (babies), are atheists before they hear of a god.
