(May 16, 2009 at 6:48 am)Tiberius Wrote: Well the way I view "agnostic atheist" is purely a descriptive term. It's like saying one is a "black atheist" or an "atheist jew". These are all labels we give things to help enforce an accurate description of them. I call myself an agnostic atheist not because I am both atheist and agnostic, and those two words together form a more accurate description of my stance on god. If I were to go further, I would call myself (as I do in my profile on this site) a "militant strong agnostic atheist".
That's fair enough except that it's kind of pointless ... you and I both agree (as I recall) that we CANNOT know there is no god therefore in a technical sense we're all agnostic so atheism and agnosticism are the same thing and one of the terms is redundant. It's a bit like saying you;'re an atheist atheist or an agnostic agnostic ... why bother?
Kyu
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