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Festivito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 06:22 PM
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96. A parenthetical and contraction does not hide the "IS"
Paraphrasing you: ..for me there IS an absence of god.

You really could not get around making a sentence out of your belief. The hunger parallel attempts to say that you have no belief of no god, like you have no hunger of no food, which does not work. No food begets hunger. No god does not beget belief. And you do have your belief in the absence of god even if it is expressed in a contraction.

Believing in an "absence of god" does not differ from believing in "no god." I'd say either of those phrases involves atheism.

Your first statement was that you have no belief in "no god." That would be agnostic, i.e. literally, not knowing (a:not, gnosis:knowing), not atheism (a:not, theos:god, ist:believer).

Unless that Nuh title made a triple negative out of a double negative?
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