(August 11, 2019 at 1:27 pm)randomguy123 Wrote: If anything, one can only be agnostic, rather than an atheist.
It all depends on how you define it. I'd call myself an agnostic atheist. Atheist because I don't believe in any gods, but agnostic because I know it's not provable.
It's mostly splitting hairs. No one can agree if "atheist" means "doesn't believe in any gods" or "believes there are no gods".
(August 11, 2019 at 1:27 pm)randomguy123 Wrote: Why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
How can you be sure that God's existence is not real, for certain?
Well, I can't, but I don't see that as being a meaningful issue. There are literally an infinite number of things that could exist and have yet to be disproven.
What if I posit a god named Steve who punishes faith and rewards skepticism. You could ask me for evidence of my claim, and I'd just keep defining Steve in such a way that he cannot be disproven. You could say "why do I care about this nonfalsifiable entity?" and I could respond "But what if you're wrong?"
My point is that there are no shortage of things that might be real or might not be, and I need not waste any time proving they're not real before I can just comfortably live my life as thought they're not real, pending evidence from people making the claims.
