RE: Atheism's Definition - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
December 3, 2011 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2011 at 11:44 am by Ace Otana.)
(December 3, 2011 at 11:27 am)lucent Wrote: As a former agnostic, I know what agnosticism is. There is no such thing as an agnostic atheist. An agnostic says he doesn't know, which means he neither believes or disbelieves. An atheist says he doesnt believe. They are mutually exclusive. To say you are both is logically absurd. You're actually just an atheist who is intellectually honest enough to say that you couldn't really know, but refuses to take that belief to its logical conclusion and abandon your atheism.
I'm an atheist because I don't believe in god, I'm an agnostic because I don't know whether there is a god or not. It's not hard to grasp. It's not difficult to understand. Also, disbelieve/lack of belief/no belief is pretty much all the same thing. I don't believe in god, just as I don't believe in Santa. I'm not claiming anything.
Agnosticism and Atheism are not mutually exclusive. I'm both. I don't know whether there is a god or not (agnostic) but at the same time I'm unconvinced that such a being exists (atheist). Get it now?
Gnosticism and Agnosticism are based on knowledge. Theism and Atheism is based on belief/lack of.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
