RE: Atheists Claim Agnostics are Atheist
June 2, 2013 at 10:21 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2013 at 10:23 pm by Rhizomorph13.)
(June 2, 2013 at 9:17 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: If you aren't sure whether or not a god exists, then you wouldn't believe in one, so therefore you definitely wouldn't be a theist.
This is not a true statement. Most theists are agnostic as well as most atheists. Agnostic/gnostic answers the question of whether a question is knowable or not. Many sects of Christianity require that God be unknowable because then it requires that leap of faith to "choose Jesus". I don't think belief works that way though. We have ideas in our brain and from those ideas we arrive at our beliefs.
(June 2, 2013 at 8:21 pm)Ranger Mike Wrote: While I understand the distinction many atheists have made, I do not agree! Atheism pertains directly to the BELIEF, or in this case the lack thereof, of any gods or god, the afterlife, the supernatural, and so forth.
-Mike[/i]
Atheism means you do not believe in any gods; nothing more. It is perfectly possible to believe in a Heaven even if you didn't believe in God.
