(September 3, 2013 at 5:47 pm)Simsim Wrote: It is just another cautious (or friendly) way to say that you are atheist. Exactly like the terms: agnosticism, free thinker, apatheism and, sometimes, secularism.. etc. All agnostics, free thinkers and apatheists turn unmasked atheists when talking to other atheists in the absence of theists. But just when they speak to their societies they become free thinkers and secularists again.
Maybe this is just the way it seems when you find the notion of God straightforward enough and the question of His existence compelling. I don't think even everyone in the same church thinks of God in the same way, let alone between churches, other religions or nontheists. Also I don't find it an urgent matter to decide. Perhaps gods are intrapersonal phenomena like dreams, obsessions and the like. They may be real for some but non-existent for others. I can't report any gods active in my internal life but I don't find that conclusive evidence for negating what others may experience. But gods as objective, interpersonally verifiable beings have not been produced so far as I know, and no first hand testimony can conclusively be shown to be based on objective rather than subjective experience. So until I have my own hallucination, I'll hang out with the skeptically inclined.
