(April 5, 2015 at 9:40 am)comet Wrote: don't do word games.
No word games. "Agnostic" means "without knowledge". Even if it only meant "without knowledge of the existence of deities", it's still not an answer to the question. The question, as it turns out, is "Do you believe in one or more deities?", and so the only answers are "Yes" (theism) or "No" (atheism). "I don't know if deities exist" says nothing about what you do or do not believe.
(April 5, 2015 at 9:40 am)comet Wrote: Only the facts as best we can.
The facts are spelled out above.
(April 5, 2015 at 9:40 am)comet Wrote: So it gets back to honesty and facts. Honesty in our stances and honesty in how much we know.
My stance is gnostic atheism, and for a very simple reason: the term "god" is loosely defined at best. One person's god is another person's toilet paper (possibly literally for some). I thought about the characteristics a being could have that would make me bow down and worship it. The universe, as it exists, is not compatible with those characteristics, so I can say for certain that there are no gods. Moreover, I can say that there never have been nor will there ever be gods.
(April 5, 2015 at 9:40 am)comet Wrote: Then we can address a particular claim(s)
It would help if you didn't spit out one-sentence responses with double (sometimes triple or quadruple) spacing.
The truth is absolute. Life forms are specks of specks (...) of specks of dust in the universe.
Why settle for normal, when you can be so much more? Why settle for something, when you can have everything?
Why settle for normal, when you can be so much more? Why settle for something, when you can have everything?