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TopicHow are people still ignorant of the definitions of atheist and agnostic?
nicklebro
07/17/18 12:32:00 AM
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Dash_Harber posted...
nicklebro posted...
Plus you need to know these terms in order to know where you fall yourself.


Except at no point in your life is having a word for your philosophy on supernatural matters really going to have that big of an impact outside of religious conflicts (which, generally, hold agnostics and atheists with the same disdain anyway).

The point is not that blood type and religion are similar, the point is that they are things that are unique to people and no one else really cares what your belief is unless it somehow affects them personally. People don't know the difference because it's not important to a lot of people, just like how most people don't know the history of the divide between Western and Eastern Rome. Personally, I think that period of Roman history if fascinating, but I don't go around talking down to others if they don't know that the term 'Byzantine' was posthumously created to distinguish the Eastern half of Rome from the Western.

Well I I guess it's just a bigger priority for me than it is for you. I (wrongly) assumed that most people were like me. I apparently might be wrong.DuranOfForcena posted...
nicklebro posted...
Theists like to pretend that atheism means you reject the existence of a god because that's an easier stance tknargue against.

uhhhh

it kinda does mean that though

atheism is literally the disbelief of or the absence of belief in the existence of god or gods

There's a difference between disbelief and absence of belief, that's the point.

WheezinEd posted...
nicklebro posted...

Man you just go on and on and on. Your own evidence proved you wrong before.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-do-secular-atheist-agnostic-mean

The most reliable dictionary in the word disagrees with you.

Your own evidence keeps proving you wrong and you keep missing it. Atheism is not a religion, agnostic atheists exist. Those two sentences alone are all it takes to refute your entire argument.
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