RE: Atheists Claim Agnostics are Atheist
June 2, 2013 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2013 at 8:46 pm by Cyberman.)
Hi Mike, welcome aboard! Why not pop into our Introductions forum, help yourself to a tall frosty beverage and tell us a little about yourself?
On the subject at hand: while it's not impossible, I myself have never come across any of these atheists of whom you speak, the ones making the claim you mention. I agree, and I'm sure many of us here agree, with your summation that theism and atheism pertain to one's belief (though I question the broadening of the definition to include anything beyond god claims) while gnosticism/agnosticism does indeed correlate with what one knows.
However, the terms are not mutually exclusive and, in point of fact, complement one another to give a more thorough snapshot of a person's position. Hence, one can be a gnostic theist, agnostic theist, agnostic atheist or a gnostic atheist.
On the subject at hand: while it's not impossible, I myself have never come across any of these atheists of whom you speak, the ones making the claim you mention. I agree, and I'm sure many of us here agree, with your summation that theism and atheism pertain to one's belief (though I question the broadening of the definition to include anything beyond god claims) while gnosticism/agnosticism does indeed correlate with what one knows.
However, the terms are not mutually exclusive and, in point of fact, complement one another to give a more thorough snapshot of a person's position. Hence, one can be a gnostic theist, agnostic theist, agnostic atheist or a gnostic atheist.
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.'
