• jdr@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    I take your point. For the record if you do claim that gnosticism and atheism are indeed opposites, them isn’t “gnostic atheism” an oxymoron?

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      6 days ago

      no no … its like this … within the context of atheism the prefixes gnostic and agnostic refer to the following term “atheism”.

      atheist refers to belief gnostic / agnostic refers to certainty

      no one claimed anything about gnosticism at all, let alone that its the opposite of atheism. thats doubly wrong. also, iirc you are the one who introduced opposites into this conversation. i do agree the whole situation is semantically confusing. :)