fuckyeahagnosticism:

Actually, there are theist agnostics. There are also agnostics, such as myself, who are neither atheist nor theist. A person can hold a belief without claiming knowledge of if the belief is true.

I know there are theist agnostics. But the “undecided” agnostics are all atheist. You just need to answer the question “Do you believe god exists?”. And the answer to that can only be “yes” or “no”. And if you’re supposedly undecided, the answer is “no”, as is to the answer to the question “Do you believe god doesn’t exist?”.

But as soon as you lack a belief in god, you’re an atheist.

An awesome video from philhellenes.

The current popular definition of agnosticism is as someone who is neither a theist nor an atheist - as someone who is “undecided” when it comes to the question of god’s existence. I’ve come a lot of self-proclaimed agnostics, who like to claim some kind of philosophical high-ground, and see atheists as “just as dogmatic as theists”. Some agnostics never really contemplate what they actually mean when they say they’re agnostic and what the implications are.

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I’ve recently been debating with some guy online about what should be believed, and when are you justified in believing something. It was a version of the classic “you can’t prove god doesn’t exist” arguments.

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