(May 20, 2015 at 8:36 pm)YGninja Wrote: Well its really simple, if you don't believe either way or don't care enough about the question to bother, you are an agnostic. If you believe to any degree of certainty that there is no God, you are an atheist.
Your definition of agnostic is incorrect.
It has nothing to do with the amount of caring about the question one has. It is about having the position that the existence of a god is either unknown, or unknowable.
It is impossible to not believe either way. Belief is a binary mental state, either one believes a premise is true, or they don't. It is not possible to be in some in between mental state.
If one accepts the premise that a god exists, they are a theist, ANYTHING else is atheism.
Quote:If you believe to any degree of certainty that there is no God, you are an atheist.
You actually have this exactly backwards.
If you believe to any degree of certainty that at least one god exists, you are a theist.
At this point, since I've seen you post the same crap several times, I have no hope that you will understand the difference between the following 2 statements:
1. I believe no gods exist.
2. I do not believe gods exist.
if you think you know the difference, between them, please explain.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
