(August 27, 2014 at 7:31 pm)Blackout Wrote: I think believing god doesn't exist is claiming knowledge - Therefore you're a a gnostic atheist like me - If you were an agnostic you'd say that there is no certainty
Couldn't you say there is no knowledge? I would be inclined to say "god almost certainly does not exist" but not "I know for a fact that no gods exist". Even "I'm sure there is no god" could mean something subtly different from "I know for a fact that there is no god". Depending on who said them, they could also very well mean the exact same thing. So I guess I'm not 100% certain, just reasonably certain. In the same vein that there need be no reasonable doubt in a person's guilt to convict, I have no reasonable doubts that gods are imaginary. Would I claim to know that they are, though? I would not.
However, I may just be speaking on a technicality; our views on the likelihood of a god existing are probably fairly similar. To each his own, I suppose. I'll just keep calling myself agnostic on a technicality, and you can keep ignoring said technicality in favor of where you feel your position is.

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