RE: atheist vs agnostics.
February 7, 2013 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2013 at 3:32 pm by naimless.)
(February 7, 2013 at 2:22 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: If you don't currently believe in a god then you are an atheist in my book.
You may say that you don't know if god exists or not and as such are an agnostic, but that seems to be just a subset of atheism to me.
Unfortunately there are a lot of prominent atheists who do not share that view. I watched this video where Ricky Gervais ridiculed agnostics for not being atheists in front of Dawkins and Dawkins didn't even educate Ricky that he was partly agnostic.
There really is a severe problem in using this terminology depending on what audience you are with. Dawkins obviously didn't feel the need as he was talking to an atheist, however; if he was talking to a religious person would he have allowed the ridicule of agnosticism in comparison? I doubt it.
