deskpro2k3 said:
potato_hamster said:
You're the one claiming that Sam Harris "preaches". You might have said that you believe that atheism is a religion, but you certainly implied that you believe that is the case. Furthermore, you're still wrong about what you're using as definitions for "athiest" and "agnostic". You're incorrectly labelling an "athiest" as "someone who believes there is no god" and "agnostic" as "someone who is skeptical about whether or not a god exists".
There's no other way to say it. This is wrong. Your insult to being told that doesn't change the truth of that.
Again, (a)thiesm is the belief (or lack of belief) in a deity. (A)gnosticism is the belief (or lack of beleif) that you can know that a deity exists. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Sam Harris is an example of a very vocal gnostic athiest. The fact that you're using him as an example of what it means to be an atheist is the same as me using Fred Phelps as an example of what it means to be a christian, when we both know most athiests and christians aren't like either.
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Preaching = publicly proclaim or teach (a religious message or belief). This is what Sam Harris does, and other Athiest that follows him.
Didn't I tell you not to reply? I feel like you're posting just to waste time, and read what I've bold. It is the same thing.
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I'm sorry, do you think you can dictate who can and cannot reply to you? Because you can't.
It's odd that you got insulted that I mentioned that you seem to believe that athiesm is a religion, and then give a definition of preaching that means proclaiming a religious message. It appears that I was correct.
