• Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Words like “atheism” or “agnostic” make sense as shorthands for everyday conversations or labelling, but if you want to be rigorous about it, it makes more sense to use 4 categories:

    • Gnostic theist: I know there’s a God, I’ve met Him, I feel it, I have faith, etc.

    • Agnostic theist: I don’t know if there’s a god or not, but I prefer to believe there’s one

    • Agnostic atheist: if we don’t know if there’s a god or not, there’s no reason to believe there’s one. Do you assume there’s an invisible giant teapot orbiting Earth because there’s no proof to the contrary?

    • Gnostic atheist: a god can’t possibly exist, the concept of a god is illogical, etc.

    I’m agnostic atheist, but maybe there could a firm reasoning for the gnostic atheist position. I don’t know, I would have to read and think about it more.

    • saimen@feddit.org
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      3 hours ago

      Interesting categories, but I don’t find myself in any of them: We don’t know if there is a god therefore I neither believe in its existence nor in its non-existence because it doesn’t matter anyway. If god(s) exist they either don’t affect human lives or they do it without letting us know how and why. In both cases there is no reasons to change anything in my life.

      I think this view is called apathetic or pragmatic agnosticism.