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Silent3

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27. I suppose if you decide to act as if there is a God...

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 11:43 AM

Mar 2012

...even though you don't feel you can know whether or not that God exists, then one could be an agnostic theist.

The God you decide to follow would have to be a fairly specific God, not just a vague "First Cause" or the like, otherwise there wouldn't be any consequence to acting as if this God exists. That would make this sort of "belief" (if you can call it that) in something you believe you can't know a bit strange, but not impossible given the head games many people are capable of playing on themselves.

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Something to think about the next time you want to call an atheist "militant". [View all] cleanhippie Mar 2012 OP

That's a perfect illustration of the differences -nt NAO Mar 2012 #1

Here's the definition longship Mar 2012 #2

Agnostic = Atheist? No, not so much. TalkingDog Mar 2012 #5

Not equal words, but not mutually exclusive Silent3 Mar 2012 #11

It would be equally accurate to say skepticscott Mar 2012 #26

This is correct. n/t trotsky Mar 2012 #31

W/B skepticscott Mar 2012 #42

So I'm seeing. trotsky Mar 2012 #43

Yes, so much longship Mar 2012 #17

They are not equal, nor interchangable. I agree that there is overlap in people who are both. TalkingDog Mar 2012 #22

How is that, I'm curious longship Mar 2012 #23

I suppose if you decide to act as if there is a God... Silent3 Mar 2012 #27

Quite easily dmallind Mar 2012 #37

Or this. rug Mar 2012 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author cleanhippie Mar 2012 #4

Get back to me when they use that billboard to kill somebody. 2ndAmForComputers Mar 2012 #6

It's a good thing non sequiturs don't kill. rug Mar 2012 #7

Unlike what's depicted in the first two panels of the comic in the OP. 2ndAmForComputers Mar 2012 #12

Let it go, man, he is just trying to hijack the thread. cleanhippie Mar 2012 #14

Surely not! mr blur Mar 2012 #25

And the problem is what? aka-chmeee Mar 2012 #9

"Racist Billboard Saying �Slaves Obey Your Master� Sparks Outrage" rug Mar 2012 #10

Do you think the billboard is racist? ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #19

I think LeftishBrit put it well in the other thread. rug Mar 2012 #20

If we started going door to door like they do, aka-chmeee Mar 2012 #8

I'm a fundamentalist militant agnostic. I cannot know. You cannot know. NO ONE can know. saras Mar 2012 #13

Thats great, but do you BELIEVE in a god or not? cleanhippie Mar 2012 #15

I regard belief as a dangerous practice, like violent force, best reserved for extreme situations saras Mar 2012 #16

That has nothing to do with theism or atheism. cleanhippie Mar 2012 #18

Nope. Belief is a mental activity, not an abstract binary opposition. saras Mar 2012 #21

I feel like we are unable to communicate. cleanhippie Mar 2012 #28

Speaking of broken records. And debatable at that. nt humblebum Mar 2012 #24

Then debate it... deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #29

Well your portrayal of atheists as nothing more than militant noise makers, humblebum Mar 2012 #30

quite a list deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #32

Reality is what it is. But as usual, you attempt to put some spin on it. nt humblebum Mar 2012 #33

I agree deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #34

Well when you spin as often as you do, it's hard not to humblebum Mar 2012 #35

less singing, more bringing. n/t deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #36

I have already proven my case, and the incidents listed pretty much equal the humblebum Mar 2012 #38

case closed in post 32 then I guess n/t deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #39

Case proven at #32, but this could be pointlessly drawn out endlessly. However, humblebum Mar 2012 #40

certainly deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #41