RE: Does God Exist? Kind of

[pjheinz]

You have my upvote, but to clarify, the author and first poster are describing agnosticism but referring to it as atheism. It is a very common error due to the nuance of definitions. Atheism implies certainty in the non-existence of God, a​gnosticism is an uncertainty due to lack of strong information.

ag·nos·tic
aɡˈnästik/
noun
plural noun: agnostics
a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.
synonyms: skeptic, doubter, doubting Thomas, cynic; More

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[royaltiffany]

Thank you for the info...atheism as far as i know is believing in your own forces , believing that you can do anything without the help of any unseen forces. Or that's how one of my friends described it. I found it pretty accurate.

[andrarchy]

Here's the definition of atheist according to the first google result: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods. This describes me perfectly, therefore I was not mistaken. However, the post is essentially about the imprecision of words, so kind of ironic that you're fixating on definitions :)

[pjheinz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.[1][2][3][4] Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist.[5][6] In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.[1][2][7]

As you can see Atheism is the belief that no such Deity exists. Theism Is the belief that such a Diety does exist. Agnosticism is to not have the evidence to believe either with certainty.