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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: Diamond

‘Agnostic’ literally means ‘without secret knowledge’. It’s not a positive belief.


73 posted on 09/26/2008 8:09:34 PM PDT by Borges
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