Peh said:
o_O.Q said:
no agnosticism is the neutral position of having no evidence so no belief
i've said it already but personally i think this new reclassification of what atheism is has been done to hand wave away people who criticise it
i have never in my life heard someone say that they'd reject evidence of a god if it was provided to them, but i have heard people that call themselves atheist quite often reject completely the idea that a god could exist(examples are present in this very thread)
some definitions still show that "Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist." this came from google
this whole thing about equating agnosticism and atheist is just a linguistic game and i just don't buy it
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I've posted the official definition for these terms, arf. Look it up, arf. You can't just make your own definition of a word and use it for your argument, arf. That's intellectual dishonesty, arf.
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the first entry that popped up on google has this as the definition
"...Less broadly, atheismis the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that..."
