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Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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3. A lot of atheists are not antitheists.

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 08:45 PM

Mar 2015

I would suggest that most of them are not. Every closet atheist is a passive atheist, and there are a lot of them as well.

I agree with you about the Bible, although, as with everything, I have no scientific evidence that the Bible is not divine.

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Drawing a distinction between science and philosophy [View all] Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 OP

Until the last statement, Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #1

I know some atheists who are not antitheist. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #2

A lot of atheists are not antitheists. Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #3

But we do have evidence edhopper Mar 2015 #4

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #14

My evidence that the Bible is not divinely inspired... Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #9

Not to mention.... AlbertCat Mar 2015 #10

Difference between Atheist and Antitheist LostOne4Ever Mar 2015 #5

Some of my best friends are theists Cartoonist Mar 2015 #6

When you said: LostOne4Ever Mar 2015 #7

Yes! That's one distinction I forgot to mention. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #8

I suppose there might be some kind of "cosmic consciousness" that could be called "god" in one sense AlbertCat Mar 2015 #11

That's why I call it philosophical speculation Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #15

I do not believe in those things. AlbertCat Mar 2015 #17

You lost me with NDE, but then you fell down a pit with atheist v antitheist. Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 #12

Let me clarify, then. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #16

I have a different take on it Lordquinton Mar 2015 #13

Science: Men, Methods, Goals SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #18

Science != Philosophical speculation. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #19

You saying so does not make it so SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #20

Whatever. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #21

ok SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #22