On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:48:25 GMT, malcolm at pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm
McMahon) wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 06:25:20 +0200, ichi at earthling.net (Ichimusai)
>wrote:
>>>>Atheism is the lack of theistic beliefs, nothing more, nothing less.
>>There are no rules to atheists, no belief system to conform to and
>>this is specially true if you are an implicit atheist i.e. never was
>>exposed for religion.
>>>>No, _agnosticism_ is the lack of theistic beliefs. Atheism is the
>positive believe in the non existance of God or Gods. That's a
>completely different proposition.
You know, there ARE different definitions. Check out one of the
online atheist FAQs. You're, what, more of an authority on
atheism/agnosticism than the millions of other non-theists in this
nation?
And you didn't address his point about implicit atheism.
Don