• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    I guess at the end I’m more agnostic rather than atheist, in this aspect.

    I don’t like how agnostic and atheist have been used. Atheist means a lack of belief in a god. Anti-theist is the active belief there isn’t one. Agnostic is someone who knows that they cannot know if there’s a god. Agnostic atheist is someone who knows they can’t know if there’s a god and lacks the belief in one.

    Agnostic is not the same claim as atheist or theist. It is a claim on the ability to know something, not on the beliefs that person holds. A gnostic atheist is the same as an Anti-theist. They think they can know there isn’t a god. The inverse for a gnostic theist. You can also be an agnostic theist, who doesn’t think it can be known, but they still believe.

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      5 days ago

      Okay then let me rephrase my beliefs:

      • I do not believe in any deity et al
      • I do not dismiss the potential for a higher being to exist
      • I will not believe in such an entity until undismissable, scientifically verifiable, direct proof is given