"According to the philosopher William L. Rowe, in the popular sense, an agnostic is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities, whereas a theist and an atheist believe and disbelieve, respectively."
Now how can you put agnostic together with atheist in your poll?
mooghead · Member since
People tend to get the definition of atheist wrong. An atheist does not believe that there is no god. An atheist does not believe in the existence of god. Its a subtle but important difference. Atheist and agnostic should not be together as mentioned above.
For what its worth when I ceased being a child I ceased having imaginary friends.
brENsKi · Member since
A bit of idol (pun intended) curiosity - why did you choose to leave Hinduism off the list? The THIRD largest world religion behind Christianity and Islam merits only shoehorning into the "other" category, while two that you list Buddhist and Jewish have only a small percentage of followers that Hinduism has.
I don't know if you may want to consider re-titling Muslim and Jewish to Islam(ic) and Judaism(c). worth a thought?
NB - thereis no such thing as "undefined" - if you have a belief then you are able to define it, therefore it's either in the list or it's "other", and if you don't have a belief then again you can define this - as agnostic or atheist. just trying to help
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]
People tend to get the definition of atheist wrong. An atheist does not believe that there is no god. An atheist does not believe in the existence of god. Its a subtle but important difference. Atheist and agnostic should not be together as mentioned above.
For what its worth when I ceased being a child I ceased having imaginary friends.[/QUOTE]
Not true. Atheism = Greek, a-theos = "no god". Atheism is the DISBELIEF in the existence of a deity. Disbelief in a deity = believing a deity does not exist.
GERRYISADICK · Member since
Ok lets stop getting technical about it I didnt know the difference between the two
GERRYISADICK · Member since
Right lets politely say what we are I will go 1st. I am a sedevacantist
noorie · Member since
^^^^^^ I just looked that up. Very interesting!
Me - Zoroastrian.
mooghead · Member since
I have an appreciation for Buddhism as Buddhists do not worship a deity, its about the inner self, it is very intriguing. But they believe in re incarnation and that fucks it all up :-(
pittrek · Member since
What am I if I think (think does not equal believe) that this all was created by a higher intelligence, but I don't believe that somebody is still controlling it?
Chief Mouse · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]
What am I if I think (think does not equal believe) that this all was created by a higher intelligence, but I don't believe that somebody is still controlling it?[/QUOTE]
Agnostic theist I assume (not an expert at all)? I'm probably something similar.
mooghead · Member since
"Disbelief in a deity = believing a deity does not exist."
I disagree
mooghead · Member since
Jesus Christ ?@Jesusontwittorr
John 3:16, Mark 4:20
John is clearly the fastest
The King Of Rhye · Member since
I've considered myself an agnostic/atheist sort.........I do kinda lump 'em together............OK, after looking some things up online...............I guess I could call myself a "strong agnostic" in that I don't think we CAN know.......which is kinda close to atheism I think............
And I kinda like the sound of this one too.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
mooghead · Member since
The first paragraph sent me to sleep. I will happily apologise and fall to my feet to the big guy in the sky (of which there are thousands..) if anyone offers a shred of proof. Thats all us atheists want. Give us something to apologise for.
