| CladInShadows said: Fellow atheist (or agnostic?) here. My opinion, and it may be wrong, is that most atheists don't deny the remote possibility of a god, just that there is no evidence to support it. Therefore, most don't believe in a god. That doesn't automatically translate to believing there is no god. Because as a science and fact-based worldview, we can't know for sure. We just haven't see any real evidence yet. |
Ah I see the issue! So, I did some (albeit very brief) research into the formal definition of atheism and agnosticism, and it appears there is some division: Whereas some philosophers (and many theists) often boil atheism down to “believing there is no god(s)” and agnosticism to “openness to believing there is a god or that there is not a god,” others (including many atheists) will define atheism as the “lack of belief in a god or gods.”
That said…yeah I might just have to drop out of this conversation on “Atheism is/is not a belief system.” The claim is apparently a bit more nuanced/divisive than I once thought.
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