re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital

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Then as you've said, you're agnostic

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I'm of the view that there really isn't any such thing as an agnostic.

To me, one believes or one does not believe.

If one says they are "agnostic" then by definition, they do not fall into the former.

To me, atheism is simply the absence of belief. I realize that Webster's disagrees but frankly, that view is from the viewpoint of a belief.

I subscribe to the following.

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Atheism is usually defined incorrectly as a belief system. Atheism is not a disbelief in gods or a denial of gods; it is a lack of belief in gods. Older dictionaries define atheism as "a belief that there is no God.

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Atheism is the default. When you are born, you have no belief in a God of any sort. You are effectively, an atheist. If no one EVER introduced the idea of God to you, then you'd have to create the idea on your own but you weren't born with it either way.

I used to say I was "agnostic" but I came to view the term as nonsensical. I pretty much said it as an "out". IE, somehow, the whole "well, if there's a God, I didn't say I was atheist" line of thinking meaning I could somehow still work my way into heaven.

But, that's silly. If there in fact turned out to be a God, he obviously would know I didn't believe in him. If pretending to ride the fence fooled him, then he isn't God in the first place.

Hence, to me, either you believe or don't. Either you're a theist, or an Atheist.