“Lack of belief” blurs the line between atheist and agnostic

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4. the problem comes in

When some atheists try to say "being an agnostic is just being an atheist without guts..to quote Madalyn Murray O' Hare

http://www.atheisms.info/atheisms/ohairag.html

especially when she spouts BS like this:

"The reason is that agnosticism, which puts forward the false notion that the world is unknowable, undermines science and reinforces theology. "

To state that the world is unknowable is NOT the same as admitting there is a God, indeed, it undermines the idea as what religion seeks is to say the world can be known.

To give examples and contrasts, this is a rather benign, polite reply which still is angry at agnostics.

http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/Thread-I-m-not-atheist-I-m-agnostic

And part of the reason the religion topics become donnybrooks is because SOME atheists, note I say some, take the O hair route, where if we do not agree with their definition of things, we get stomped on.

If I wanted to submit to dogma, I would be a Catholic.