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In the discussion thread: Something to think about the next time you want to call an atheist "militant". [View all]

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 02:47 PM

Silent3 (6,879 posts)

11. Not equal words, but not mutually exclusive

Most of the atheists in this forum are also agnostics. If you don't think those two words go together, you don't understand what the words mean.

Hint: The technical meanings of the words are different than the common colloquial (mis-) use where "agnostic" is treated as some kind of neutral position in between atheism and theism.

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43 replies	Author	Time	Post
Something to think about the next time you want to call an atheist "militant". [View all]	cleanhippie	Mar 2012	OP
That's a perfect illustration of the differences -nt	NAO	Mar 2012	#1
Here's the definition	longship	Mar 2012	#2
Agnostic = Atheist? No, not so much.	TalkingDog	Mar 2012	#5
Not equal words, but not mutually exclusive	Silent3	Mar 2012	#11
It would be equally accurate to say	skepticscott	Mar 2012	#26
This is correct. n/t	trotsky	Mar 2012	#31
W/B	skepticscott	Mar 2012	#42
So I'm seeing.	trotsky	Mar 2012	#43
Yes, so much	longship	Mar 2012	#17
They are not equal, nor interchangable. I agree that there is overlap in people who are both.	TalkingDog	Mar 2012	#22
How is that, I'm curious	longship	Mar 2012	#23
I suppose if you decide to act as if there is a God...	Silent3	Mar 2012	#27
Quite easily	dmallind	Mar 2012	#37
Or this.	rug	Mar 2012	#3
This message was self-deleted by its author	cleanhippie	Mar 2012	#4
Get back to me when they use that billboard to kill somebody.	2ndAmForComputers	Mar 2012	#6
It's a good thing non sequiturs don't kill.	rug	Mar 2012	#7
Unlike what's depicted in the first two panels of the comic in the OP.	2ndAmForComputers	Mar 2012	#12
Let it go, man, he is just trying to hijack the thread.	cleanhippie	Mar 2012	#14
Surely not!	mr blur	Mar 2012	#25
And the problem is what?	aka-chmeee	Mar 2012	#9
"Racist Billboard Saying “Slaves Obey Your Master” Sparks Outrage"	rug	Mar 2012	#10
Do you think the billboard is racist?	ZombieHorde	Mar 2012	#19
I think LeftishBrit put it well in the other thread.	rug	Mar 2012	#20
If we started going door to door like they do,	aka-chmeee	Mar 2012	#8
I'm a fundamentalist militant agnostic. I cannot know. You cannot know. NO ONE can know.	saras	Mar 2012	#13
Thats great, but do you BELIEVE in a god or not?	cleanhippie	Mar 2012	#15
I regard belief as a dangerous practice, like violent force, best reserved for extreme situations	saras	Mar 2012	#16
That has nothing to do with theism or atheism.	cleanhippie	Mar 2012	#18
Nope. Belief is a mental activity, not an abstract binary opposition.	saras	Mar 2012	#21
I feel like we are unable to communicate.	cleanhippie	Mar 2012	#28
Speaking of broken records. And debatable at that. nt	humblebum	Mar 2012	#24
Then debate it...	deacon_sephiroth	Mar 2012	#29
Well your portrayal of atheists as nothing more than militant noise makers,	humblebum	Mar 2012	#30
quite a list	deacon_sephiroth	Mar 2012	#32
Reality is what it is. But as usual, you attempt to put some spin on it. nt	humblebum	Mar 2012	#33
I agree	deacon_sephiroth	Mar 2012	#34
Well when you spin as often as you do, it's hard not to	humblebum	Mar 2012	#35
less singing, more bringing. n/t	deacon_sephiroth	Mar 2012	#36
I have already proven my case, and the incidents listed pretty much equal the	humblebum	Mar 2012	#38
case closed in post 32 then I guess n/t	deacon_sephiroth	Mar 2012	#39
Case proven at #32, but this could be pointlessly drawn out endlessly. However,	humblebum	Mar 2012	#40
certainly	deacon_sephiroth	Mar 2012	#41

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