Re: virus: atheism vs. agnosticism

Sodom (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Thu, 04 Dec 1997 14:09:05 -0500


Robin Faichney wrote:

> > From: David McFadzean[SMTP:david@lucifer.com]
> >
> > At 08:03 PM 12/3/97 -0000, Robin Faichney wrote:
> > >I disagree. Lack of belief and nothing more is agnosticism.
> > >Atheism is belief there is no god.
> >
> > I disagree. ;-)
> > source: <http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/intro.html>
> >
> > "What is atheism?"
> >
> > Atheism is...
> >
> OK, I'll continue to argue for agnosticism, in the original
> Huxleyan definition, but give up arguing against atheism.
>
> Robin
> > --
> > Agnosticism: following your reason as far as it
> > will take you. TH Huxley, 1869.

I think that this is fair, they are somewhat similar and difficult to
argue due to semantics. I call myself an Atheist, but that is because we
can identify the sources of our ideas for God. Perhaps there is
something entirely outside of our collectinve human experience that
would qualify, and in that sense "i don't know".

Sodom