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    Agnostics and Atheists

    No you got it right, but I would say that they claim to have absolute knowledge. Obviously it's impossible to be a 4, because you can't prove with absolute certainty that something doesn't exist, but some people claim that they know there is no god. It is possible to be a 1, if you meet a god or...
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    Hello from an atheist

    Thanks for the welcome :) I probably won't get to participate too much on this forum because I plan to be busy with the podcast (I just couldn't help getting into the definition thread because I recently read something about that written by Dan Barker that made those things clearer for me), but...
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    Agnostics and Atheists

    I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying, but I don't think I associated "agnostic" with absolute knowledge anywhere...I tend to think of "agnostic" as meaning uncertainty. I would say if you're 99% certain in your belief but 1% uncertain you're still an agnostic. Ex. If I said "I'm a...
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    Hello from an atheist

    I see, thanks for the info! Well, there's nothing specific about how I came to be an atheist. I was a Christian all my life, it was a big part of my identity, but I had never explored the arguments against my beliefs. Once I started allowing myself to look at the evidence for and against my...
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    Agnostics and Atheists

    I think I can add something to this discussion... Looking at the root words of "atheist" and "agnostic", we have "theist" and "gnostic" Theist = belief in a god/gods Gnostic = knowledge So theism has to do with beliefs, and gnosticism has to do with knowing something (the two terms deal with...
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    Hello from an atheist

    Hello all :) I decided to register for this forum because I'm in the preliminary stages of creating a podcast. Since I'm an atheist you can probably tell that it's going to be a skeptical podcast, and I don't want to go into too much detail yet on what the podcast is about because I'm still not...
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