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To: Jason Kauppinen

Agnosticm is a lack of belief. Atheism is a belief.


70 posted on 09/26/2008 6:20:38 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges; Jason Kauppinen
Agnosticm is a lack of belief. Atheism is a belief.

Neither of them are lack of belief. Agnosticism entails a claim that one cannot know for certain whether or not there is a God, which itself constitutes a belief about knowledge. Atheism (at least the strong form) entails the claim that there is no God, which is also a belief.

Cordially,

72 posted on 09/26/2008 8:39:51 AM PDT by Diamond (</O>)
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To: Borges

“Atheism is a belief.”

The burden of proof is on someone proposing a positive preposition. ie belief in a deity. Saying that atheism is a belief incorrectly attempts to reverse that burden.


81 posted on 09/30/2008 10:27:52 AM PDT by Jason Kauppinen
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