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Author Topic:   Atheist vs Agnostic
ohnhai
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Message 67 of 111 (189633)
03-02-2005 10:41 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Monk
03-01-2005 11:40 AM


If you sit on the fence you get splinters!
I am of the strong Atheism (sometimes denoted by the capitalisation of the word) flavour and do not accept the label agnostic.
There is no such thing as God or gods, nor anything divine or supernatural. All of that nonsense is the result of man’s desire to explain that which he, at the time, had not the wit to know the mechanisms of.
I am not agnostic as that would lead anyone to believe I have some doubt as to whether the god/s exists or not. I don’t. Doubting the existence of god is radically different to believing that he/they don’t exist at all.
Can I prove the divine doesn’t exist? No, you can never prove something doesn’t exist. This is because there is nothing to point at and go Behold! The empty space that proves the lack of the divine. And the moment you try that trick someone walks up to you with God in a box saying ok, but how do you explain this?
Those that claim god DOES exist put themselves in the position of claiming that some thing exists then constantly fail to offer up any kind of concrete proof of that existence. They even go as far to suggest the reason to can’t find evidence of god’s existence is because god doesn’t want you to find such evidence. My, how convenient! But this fall into the constant an ultra convenient answer frequently given as ‘proof’ and that is god did it
Q:Why does it rain?
A:God does it
Q:Why is there suffering and all that?
A: GOD, gave us free will
Q:How did it all start?
A;God made every thing
Q:What’s the point?
A:God, ineffable joke/game/love
Q:Why no proof of God?
A: God, has stage fright and hides it all.
I categorically do not believe in the divine, but I can’t prove their lack of existence.
Theists believe in the existence of the divine but can’t prove this existence
Agnostics don’t know either way and sit on the fence.
I’m not a fence sitter..

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