RE: Can Someone be Simply "An Agnostic?"
June 27, 2014 at 6:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2014 at 6:55 am by kjgdkjsgdskjdgksa.)
(June 27, 2014 at 6:41 am)Crossless1 Wrote:(June 27, 2014 at 6:21 am)Raindropz Wrote: Not to be silly, but if I believe there are no god(s), then what am I? I thought I was consider just an atheist and nothing more.
You are an atheist. The question is whether you are an agnostic atheist (a.k.a. "weak" atheist) or a gnostic (or "strong") atheist. When you say you believe there are no gods, do you mean to make a knowledge claim, i.e., "I know there are no gods", or do you simply disbelieve without claiming to know? If the former, you are a gnostic/strong atheist and have assumed a burden of evidence/proof. If the latter, you are an agnostic/weak atheist -- as I and most other atheists I know of are. Essentially, the agnostic atheist position is that theists, who believe in the existence of a god or gods, make a positive claim about the nature of reality and have assumed a burden of evidence that they haven't met; therefore, it is reasonable to disbelieve their claims.
I believe we are going to be dust and dirt and that we're going to go nowhere.
