2018-10-31 at 9:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson
sure he is open to the possibility but that's not having faith in a god…so in that sense you are similar to an Atheist…Neither of you have faith in any one (or more) god(s).
No. Atheists completely deny the existence of deities. Agnostics do not believe in a particular deity but they do believe in the possibility.
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2018-10-31 at 9:50 PM UTC
POLECAT
POLECAT is a motherfucking ferret
[my presentably immunised ammonification]
great now I'm a god damn agnostic
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2018-10-31 at 10:28 PM UTC
I guess I'm an agnostic atheist.
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2018-10-31 at 10:43 PM UTC
I think that’s contradictory.
2018-10-31 at 10:57 PM UTC
The ideologies are distinctly separate. A person either believes in the possibility or doesn’t. To combine the terms defeats the purpose of having the two terms, and really just confuses things.
2018-10-31 at 11:01 PM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
End discrimination. Hate everyone.
2018-10-31 at 11:30 PM UTC
Zanick
motherfucker
[my p.a. supernal goa]
You can be either a) theist, or b) atheist, where the addition of gnostic/agnostic is intended to specify the epistemological value of the claim. It's clearer when you consider that the word gnostic is translated literally from ancient Greek as "known" and thus agnostic becomes "not known" so you can either be a knowing or not knowing theist, or you can be a knowing or not knowing not theist.
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