Atheist or Non-Atheist ? ( Archived) (38)

maryrachelle: I can't take extremist of any kind. Doesn't matter what they are extremist about I just avoid them.

Dadude62: Should one really "respect" "beliefs" that condemn others?

Godsgift: And that's exactly why you'll spend an eternity in purgatory begging for forgiveness as the demons slap your naked body with sticks of wet celery!


(just kidding...........about the celery anyways)

Darkbrownskins: Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities

Dadude62: You haven't because they did not say they were atheist. Most atheist are not that way, but after centuries of religious persecution, religion has it coming.

Dadude62: Atheists and agnostics don't have a belief,,,,

Dadude62: Agnostics don't have a belief and they know it. Yes some atheists are a bit like religious types in that some can be just as staunch. In general, atheist are much like agnostics but they reject the God of religion. Other then that much like agnostics they also don't have a belief. There is no organized atheist religion, and they don't spout of such nonsense as virgin births and resurrections and heaven and hell after life. And except for thew few "fanatics" you have met they don't go around demanding anything like religious types do.
I don't think you are a true agnostic,,, You sound more like a confused religious type.
And yes after centuries of religious persecution, (not atheist), religion is slowly but surely being put in it's place.

In response to: ag·nos·tic (g-nstk)
n.
1.
a. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
b. One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
2. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
adj.
1. Relating to or being an agnostic.
2. Doubtful or noncommittal: "Though I am agnostic on what terms to use, I have no doubt that human infants come with an enormous 'acquisitiveness' for discovering patterns" (William H. Calvin).

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[a- + Gnostic.]

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ag·nosti·cal·ly adv.
Word History: An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist. The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning "without, not," as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gnsis, "knowledge," which was used by early Christian writers to mean "higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things"; hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as "Gnostics" a group of his fellow intellectuals"ists," as he called themwho had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a "man without a rag of a label to cover himself with," Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.

maryrachelle: Since clearly you are confused as to what it means to be an agnostic here is a defintion for you.....

I don't discount anyones beliefs as "nonsense". To do so would be condescending such as you are doing right now. You are only proving that what I say about atheist being fanatical and condescending as being true.