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POLL: What's your definition of an agnostic? Atheist?
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RE: POLL: What's your definition of an agnostic? Atheist?
May 31, 2010 at 6:18 pm
(May 31, 2010 at 1:30 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(May 31, 2010 at 12:55 pm)rax Wrote: An agnostic is an idiot that doesn't realize he's actually an atheist.
Right...

Now I'm confused. Your "religious views" seem to use the descriptive word "agnostic" sensibly, and then your post pushes all that aside. I will assume you were making a joke...

No, it's not a joke. Agnostic is not a religious view. So I can ask you, "Do you believe in God?", and if you reply "I'm agnostic", you're an idiot. My response would be "Right, so I didn't ask you if you had an knowledge or not regarding the existence of God. I asked you if you believed."
Agnosticism solely deals with knowledge.
It would be like me asking you "Are you a mechanic?" and you responding, "I don't know anything about cars." I never asked you if you knew anything about cars or not, I asked you whether or not you were a mechanic.


I am an agnostic atheist. I am atheist because I do not have a belief in a deity. At the same time, I do not claim to have knowledge that a god doesn't exist, making me an agnostic.

agnostic atheism = weak atheism
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RE: POLL: What's your definition of an agnostic? Atheist? - by rax - May 31, 2010 at 6:18 pm

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