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Originally Posted by pdamoc  That's atheist not agnostic. I use to think that agnostic is somehow between atheist and theist BUT, agnostic is another dimension. You've got atheist-theist in one dimension and agnostic-gnostic in the other. Each person that thinks about this subject a little bit more falls in one of the 4 sections created by the 2 axes.
Theist-gnostic: knows that God exists
Theist-agnostic: doesn't know if God exists BUT believes that God exists
Atheist- agnostic: doesn't know but believes that God doesn't exists
Atheist-gnostic: knows that God does not exists.
Agnostics tend to be less aggressive. |
I've always thought they were mainly the same thing, just that most people tend to mistakenly believe atheist means "believes for sure there is NO "god" (or higher power of any sort), when it can also and usually means "doesn't believe in any particular ones".
As I said, I don't rule out the possibilites I listed above, or that there are other energies/forces out there we can't comprehend/understand yet, if ever. At the same time, I simply don't believe in any of the gods/religions that are out there. Whatever that would make then I guess
