(August 17, 2010 at 5:51 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Welcome to the forums.
What do you mean by the way, that you were agnostic but "switched to atheism"?
How are you defining agnosticism?
Agnosticism on the matter of God would mean you claim to have no knowledge of God, whether that's knowledge that he exists or that he doesn't exist. So do you mean that you think atheism means claiming that you absolutely know God doesn't exist? Are you misinterpreting agnosticism as weak-atheism or just "uncertainty" or "fence-sitting" on the God matter?
Are you a strong or weak atheist now then?
I myself am what is said to be a "weak" atheist in the sense I don't claim absolute knowledge that God doesn't exist. Because I think I'd ironically need the mind of God myself to have absolute knowledge of anything. I am extremely certain that God doesn't exist but not absolutely certain.
Atheism is of course disbelief in God(s) regardless of whether that's 100% certain disbelief or not. So long as the disbelief is above 50% certainty, it's atheism. (Because if you're less than 50% sure then you in fact are more inclined to theism that atheism and hence are a theist (or deist if you believe in an impersonal God) however weak)).
Anyway, like I said, welcome to the forums.
You'll have to excuse my ignorance of the proper definitions of all these terms. The point in my life when I felt "agnostic" I basically wasn't sure what I believed, but I guess I was more inclined to theism because I felt like I should believe "just in case".
Now I don't believe a god exists. At all. Period. I could pretty much say that's 100%.
I'm also very much against organized religion, especially Christianity. The hypocrisy makes me fume.
