(March 15, 2018 at 9:06 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Well, there's a difference between knowledge and belief. Strong atheists don't always make claims of knowledge regarding God's existence, so they too can be agnostic atheists as well, as opposed to gnostic atheists.
The strong atheist says they believe God does not exist, which is a fairly reasonable claim to make, considering the utter lack of evidence for such a grand being. It's the gnostic atheists who say they know God does not exist.
And of course, we need to keep in mind that when we're discussing "God", we're usually referring to a certain type of God believed in by many deists and/or adherents to any of the Abrahamic religions. So atheistic positions can vary per individual based on which god is being debated.
Now that you mention it, I did hastily lump the terms together in over-simplified equations and I don't particularly like it when I read pieces that confound such terms. That being said, I don't like using the terms strong/weak to refer to atheism/theism because they are easily misunderstood and miscommunicated far more easily than the term agnostic which exists in a state of global misuse.
And still, I am not sure what the OP meant by the phrase. At least the nature of these confusing linguistic contortions serves to keep me open to asking for clarification and trying to comprehend the thoughts of a being who isn't me.
