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Smarmie Doofus

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14. Couldn't you say EXACTLY the same thing about "many" atheists?

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:19 AM

Dec 2012

Agnostics are not... by any definition that I ever heard... polite ( or wimpy) atheists.

Agnostics will variously self -define but a pretty mainstream definition is the conviction that what one can't know, one can't know. The existence of god (s) is unknowable therefore..........

That's not atheism and it certainly isn't "polite" or "wimpy" or , to quote myself, "dishonest".

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An Atheist, a Theist, and an Agnostic walk into a bar... [View all] cleanhippie Dec 2012 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Justin_Beach Dec 2012 #1

Kinda presumptuous, I'd say. Smarmie Doofus Dec 2012 #2

I don't think that was the point... SkyDaddy7 Dec 2012 #6

Couldn't you say EXACTLY the same thing about "many" atheists? Smarmie Doofus Dec 2012 #14

Since I don;t feel like typing it again... gcomeau Dec 2012 #16

Opps. Too early in the a.m. for my eyes to be working correctly... 1monster Dec 2012 #8

Dishonest? Not sure where you got that. cleanhippie Dec 2012 #15

Panel 3? n/t Smarmie Doofus Dec 2012 #17

I don't get it sakabatou Dec 2012 #3

Agnostics are half-assed. DetlefK Dec 2012 #4

I think it is basically saying that... SkyDaddy7 Dec 2012 #5

Huh... OK. sakabatou Dec 2012 #7

Or they could just be people that acknowledge that they don't Live and Learn Dec 2012 #9

Atheists DO acknowledge we don't know everything. trotsky Dec 2012 #11

I'll go with that way of looking at it. wandy Dec 2012 #13

not at all like an agnostic philosophicleese Dec 2012 #10

This may help: trotsky Dec 2012 #12