this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
707 points (93.9% liked)

Comic Strips

22898 readers
3090 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Enkrod@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not just about atheism in this, it's about the gnosticism in combination.

Gnostic Theism = I am convinced by the claim there is a god. And I know my conviction is correct.

Agnostic theism = I'm convinced by the claim there is a god, but I don't know if I'm right about that.

Agnostic atheism = I'm not convinced by the claim there is a god, and I don't know if I'm right about that.

Gnostic atheism = I'm not convinced there is a god. And I know my (negative) conviction is correct.

Gnostic atheism is often also called positive, strong or hard atheism.

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

I'm a strong atheist myself, following this reasoning:

The "no arguments argument" for atheism:

  • (1) The absence of good reasons to believe that God exists is itself a good reason to believe that God does not exist.
  • (2) There is no good reason to believe that God exists.

It follows from (1) and (2) that

  • (3) There is good reason to believe that God does not exist.
[โ€“] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Absence of evidence is weak evidence of absence. Not strong.