You're Not Agnostic, You're An Atheist

[cbayer]

109. I don't willfully block it out, I just don't agree with you.

Your definition is narrow and, while not entirely invalid, only one of many.

Your insistence that it is the only true one is the issue for you, not for me.

And vaguely familiar in an uncomfortable way.

I know you will continue this crusade as it seems to mean a great deal to you, but I doubt you are going to change many minds about this

I've seen it argued over and over again both here and elsewhere.

And those who define atheism differently (as an active disbelief) and hold themselves out as agnostic are really unlikely to change.

Perhaps we need a new nomenclature. There's that whole "spiritual but not religious" group that is growing rapidly. The data I have seen show most of them don't define themselves as theist or atheist.

You can call them atheist all day long, but they won't accept it.