(November 13, 2016 at 4:07 am)robvalue Wrote: A theist is someone with an active, positive belief in "God". Everyone else is an atheist. That is the commonly used definition of the word, at least on this forum. Of course, you may use words differently. Being an atheist requires no statement of positive belief. Whether you "identify" as an atheist doesn't change whether you are one or not.
If you don't know what your beliefs are, that's an entirely different matter and indicates some sort of internal struggle. It may be that your beliefs change frequently.
God is whatever the person I'm talking to says it is, hence my position of ignosticism. It's a meaningless word on its own. At best it's an unfalsifiable, useless hypothesis. At worst its incoherent imaginary rubbish.
I don't see the point here. I've explained that I do not claim either belief or non-belief, and I've given my reasons.
