i said:
"and i say this being quite happy to call myself an atheist, not an agnostic, mainly because i see atheism as rejecting a positive belief in any god with which/whom i would have some kind of relationship that matters in my life, not because i am making a knowledge-claim that is in any case impossible to sustain."
On 5/31/05, frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> wrote:
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> >"Atheism" simply means "without a belief in God" [or
> >theism]. It doesn't mean "asserts there is no God,"
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> sounds like agnosticism ...
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> simply not believing differs from what atheists i've interacted with
> claim...they are as certain that there is no god as theists are that
> there is a god...
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> are they the radical fringe of atheism?
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> and what the hell does being agnostic mean?
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> fs
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