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To: Kip Russell

Those who posit that there absolutely isn’t a God is an example of a strong atheist.

What you described could either be a weak atheist (one who asserts that there probably isn’t a God, but isn’t sure) an agnostic (one who asserts that there is no way to know for sure weather or not God exists) or an ignostic (one who asserts that the question of weather God exists is meaningless because a consistent definition of what God is cannot be known)


34 posted on 07/29/2013 3:46:03 AM PDT by Patriot Politics
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To: Patriot Politics
Those who posit that there absolutely isn’t a God is an example of a strong atheist.

What you described could either be a weak atheist (one who asserts that there probably isn’t a God, but isn’t sure) an agnostic (one who asserts that there is no way to know for sure weather or not God exists) or an ignostic (one who asserts that the question of weather God exists is meaningless because a consistent definition of what God is cannot be known)

Almost exactly so, although I would quibble with your definition of weak atheism; weak atheism doesn't necessarily assign a probability to the existence of God, but rather expresses that given the lack of evidence for such a being(s), there's no reason to assume its (or their) existence.

And the more I read of ignosticism, the more I lean towards it....

44 posted on 07/29/2013 6:04:46 AM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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