(June 6, 2014 at 2:17 am)beamo1080 Wrote: Deists, and pantheists or agnostics for that matter, are trying, even after realising that they don't belong within the ranks of religion, desperately to be anything but an atheist.
This is strangely probably true. I've always thought it odd that Neil DeGrasse Tyson would refuse to identify as an atheist, even when he so clearly is one. He uses the term 'agnostic' instead. It's the biggest thing that annoys me with him, the two terms aren't mutually exclusive but he uses them in such a way. It's actually bordering on intellectual dishonesty IMO.
