(August 31, 2009 at 1:08 pm)Saerules Wrote: If you believe in such things, Rhizomrph13, then you are probably an agnostic, and not an atheist.Well ignoring the obvious flaw in this reasoning which is that believing in souls / reincarnation says nothing about belief in God, you make another fallacy by reasoning as if agnosticism dealt with the same things as atheism (like theism does).
Atheism/Theism deals with whether or not you believe in God or not. If you believe, you are a theist. If you do not believe, you are an atheist.
Agnosticism/Gnosticism deals with whether or not you make any claim to know of God's existence/non-existence, or to put in another way, whether you think God's existence can be proven/disproven. If you think God can be proven/disproven, you are a gnostic. If you do not think God can be proven/disproven, you are an agnostic.
The two are not mutually exclusive, and many atheists are both (including me
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