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[–] bram@lemm.ee 67 points 2 years ago (28 children)
[–] beteljuice@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Agnosticism isn't a religion. Atheism is. You have to have faith to "know" something doesn't exist with certainty.

[–] hexi@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Atheists aren't claiming to have positive proof of the nonexistence of God.

The term means that someone has not seen convincing evidence for God's existence.

Likewise, I wouldn't say I'm agnostic about Russel's Teapot or any mythical idea because that terms tends to imply that you find the existence and nonexistence of the thing to be comparably likely.

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