(May 5, 2014 at 7:56 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I say that makes you an agnostic. Actual atheism takes the further step of claiming that religious beliefs are wrong.Chad, this comment irritates me. I know you know enough to understand why the above definition of atheism is wrong; I and others have picked you up on this before. Also you know that agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive because they regard different questions: one on knowledge, the other on belief. I could assume that yours is a deliberate mischaracterisation for some nefarious purpose but instead I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and simply explain again...
Atheism is not 'the claim that religious beliefs are wrong', rather it's simply an absence of belief in god/s. Anti-theists/strong atheists/gnostic atheists may claim that religious beliefs are wrong however it's inaccurate to assume that this definition applies to all atheists. In fact, the majority of atheists (certainly, on this forum) are agnostic atheists: they make no claim to know, for sure, that there is/are no god/s but they don't believe in any.
I trust this is the final time we have to have this conversation.
Sum ergo sum
