RE: To Agnostics, question for you
March 15, 2014 at 11:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2014 at 11:59 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 15, 2014 at 9:20 pm)jesus_wept Wrote: I think we may have got our wires crossed because I'm talking about people who call themselves "agnostic", not people who call themselves agnostic atheists.
I wonder why you make that distinction. Why should it matter? Personally, I don't have either on my vanity license plate, nor would I. Neither question from which the labels spring is all that important to me personally. But I might well answer just "agnostic" if the issue in question concerned only knowledge claims, but "atheist" only if the issue was belief. You really do seem to have some issue with agnosticism.
(March 15, 2014 at 9:20 pm)jesus_wept Wrote: Is this directed at me?
It was.
(March 15, 2014 at 9:20 pm)jesus_wept Wrote: I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "an atheist would necessarily hold the belief that gods do not exist" tbh. I think it's possible some god or other might exist but I dont see any reason to believe in them. It's possible fairies exist too but I dont believe in them either.
I was just beginning to wonder if you think of atheism as implying a belief in no gods. I take it the answer is no. (Good. We get enough of that from theists passing through.)