On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:48:25 GMT malcolm at pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm
McMahon) posted to alt.atheism an article about Re: Your Heart - Your
Brain - Your Life - Don't Waste 'em . . . with ID
<37922128.838906 at news.demon.co.uk>.
: 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.
Agnosticism as I interpret it is about weither god, or the concept of
god is knowable to man or nog. Agnostic = no knowledge.
I think you could have faith and still not know, hoping there is a god
out there and thus hold theistic belief.
Well, anyway, there are a few slightly differing definitions of
agnosticism out there, and if the definition above fits you or if you
feel comfortable with it, no problem. I just go by the definitions
outlined in the alt.atheism FAQs as it makes things easier in the
group if you use the same definitions as other people there when you
discuss.
A good starting point:
The Atheism Web
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/
Also I would be interested in the case of implicit atheism, do you
still feel that a person never subjected to the idea of religion is
agnostic to it?
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