RE: What the devil is a "gnostic atheist"?
October 7, 2012 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2012 at 1:28 pm by Cyberman.)
(October 7, 2012 at 12:28 pm)Doubting_Thomas Wrote: I wish people didn't use it but that's not a battle I can win.
Why would you wish that? I appreciate that the terminology may tend towards confusion for people not in the group, i.e. outside the discussion, but then many people don't understand the distinction between hypothesis and theory either. The terms agnostic/gnostic and atheist/theist act to complement each other; the former denotes what a person purports to know, the latter what they believe. That a sect of a particular religion chose to adopt the term gnostic to describe themselves is really neither here nor there.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
