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stevil

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It's like you're in a Kafka novel. Updated 20 Jul · 0 comments

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What's an Agnostic Atheist?

Atheist means "lack of belief in god/s" which is different from "belief that there are no god/s". A weak Atheist or Agnostic Atheist holds the stance that they lack a belief with regards to god/s. A strong Atheist has a belief that there are definately no gods.

Agnostic is a different definition. It is a claim with regards to knowledge.
Dictionary.reference.com - Agnostic
"a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as god, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience."

I myself am a weak Atheist (Agnostic Atheist) I simply haven't seen enough convincing proof for or against the existence of gods.
However with this stance I live my life as if there is no god and hence I do not follow any scripture, I have no fear of hell and no expectation of an eternal after life.

By my thinking a person could be Agnostic but also either an Atheist or a Theist. Saying that one has a belief in something is almost an admission there there aren't solid facts. e.g. One doesn't say I believe in rocks. So a Strong Atheists could admit that they don't have any proof but also hold a belief that god doesn't exist and the flipside a Theist could admit that they don't have any proof but also hold a belief that god does exist.
Weak Atheists tend to be Agnostic also. I mean, if they thought that there was knowledge one way or another then they would be a Theist or a Strong Atheist.
I use the term Agnostic Atheist as a world view for myself because it is less common for a person to know what weak Atheism means.

I have seen a definition of Atheist that says that they hold that there are no gods
Dictionary.reference.com - Atheism
The Dictionary.reference site shows both definitions. So it can be confusing and often is. I would say that the majority of Atheists don't even know that they are Atheists. The term Atheist does not have much recognition as noone is promoting it. An Atheist stance tends to be very much a passive stance, unless of course you meet up with a Troll on the Internet.

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