I consider myself anti-theist. I’m an agnostic atheist because I have seen no reason, evidence, or argument suggesting the existence of any god. It seems far more likely that god is vain human projection and wishful thinking.
Since god is evidently a dangerous falsehood, of course we should keep theism far away from important decision-making. I yearn for a world where grown adults don’t pretend that magic is real. It’s doing more harm than most people can see. Innocent people suffer and die every day for the baseless beliefs of others.
Gnosticism is the belief that knowledge can be revealed to us (e.g. from a divine source), in addition to being discovered. Therefore agnosticism is the lack of such belief in revelation leaving us only with discovery.
This depends on how you define both atheism and agnosticism
(Gnosis is the ancient Greek word for “knowledge“ and agnosis the ancient Greek word for the lack of knowledge/the opposite of knowledge)
Another definition of agnostic atheism is one who does not believe in a God, but cannot know for sure there is no God, because such a thing is unknowable (as one cannot disprove a negative), whereas gnostic atheism is one who does not believe in a God, and believes they do know there is no God for lack of any evidence, or due to some other evidence which they believe proves such a thing impossible.
How are you agnostic (unsure if god exists or not) , then saying “god is a dangerous falsehood”?
That’s why I used “evidently”. We have zero evidence suggesting the existence of any god. We have endless evidence that humans make shit up, and that the specific lie that a god exists has led to needless death and suffering.
I am an agnostic atheist willing to die fighting any selfish, stupid person who pretends there is a god.
I consider myself anti-theist. I’m an agnostic atheist because I have seen no reason, evidence, or argument suggesting the existence of any god. It seems far more likely that god is vain human projection and wishful thinking.
Since god is evidently a dangerous falsehood, of course we should keep theism far away from important decision-making. I yearn for a world where grown adults don’t pretend that magic is real. It’s doing more harm than most people can see. Innocent people suffer and die every day for the baseless beliefs of others.
How are you agnostic (unsure if god exists or not) , then saying “god is a dangerous falsehood”?
That’s not what agnostic means.
Atheism is theism plus the prefix “a”.
Agnosticism is gnosticism plus the prefix “a”.
Gnosticism is the belief that knowledge can be revealed to us (e.g. from a divine source), in addition to being discovered. Therefore agnosticism is the lack of such belief in revelation leaving us only with discovery.
This depends on how you define both atheism and agnosticism
(Gnosis is the ancient Greek word for “knowledge“ and agnosis the ancient Greek word for the lack of knowledge/the opposite of knowledge)
Another definition of agnostic atheism is one who does not believe in a God, but cannot know for sure there is no God, because such a thing is unknowable (as one cannot disprove a negative), whereas gnostic atheism is one who does not believe in a God, and believes they do know there is no God for lack of any evidence, or due to some other evidence which they believe proves such a thing impossible.
This goes into more detail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism
As with any belief system (or lack thereof) it can become a tangled mess of epistemology and philosophy and even attempts at tautology.
That’s why I used “evidently”. We have zero evidence suggesting the existence of any god. We have endless evidence that humans make shit up, and that the specific lie that a god exists has led to needless death and suffering.
I am an agnostic atheist willing to die fighting any selfish, stupid person who pretends there is a god.