Author Topic: What religion are you?/Religion discussion (Read 16900 times)

ECrownofFire · December 19, 2011, 01:57:41 AM

Damn, where's the pantheist option. Nobody ever thinks of the pantheists.

By the way, to all you atheists, are you strong or weak atheists? Strong says "there are no gods", weak says "I don't believe in gods" without saying there are definitely no gods.

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Saber15 · December 19, 2011, 02:03:53 AM

Quote from: ECrownofFire on December 19, 2011, 01:57:41 AM

Damn, where's the pantheist option. Nobody ever thinks of the pantheists.

By the way, to all you atheists, are you strong or weak atheists? Strong says "there are no gods", weak says "I don't believe in gods" without saying there are definitely no gods.

that's agnostic, not athiest.
athiest = there are no gods.
agnostic = there may be gods / may be unknowable / et cetera.

ECrownofFire · December 19, 2011, 02:06:57 AM

Quote from: Saber15 on December 19, 2011, 02:03:53 AM

that's agnostic, not athiest.
athiest = there are no gods.
agnostic = there may be gods / may be unknowable / et cetera.

Wrong.

Atheism is simply a LACK of theism.
Agnosticism is claiming we don't know or that it's impossible to know. Therefore it is a subset of (weak) atheism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

Also semantics really doesn't matter.

Saber15 · December 19, 2011, 02:08:35 AM

Quote from: ECrownofFire on December 19, 2011, 02:06:57 AM

Wrong.

Atheism is simply a LACK of theism.
Agnosticism is claiming we don't know or that it's impossible to know. Therefore it is a subset of (weak) atheism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

first line.
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.[1] In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.