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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (38271)11/22/2001 11:25:23 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I think you need to hang out with real atheists. Then you might understand the difference. Atheism is a positive belief in the absence of a deity. But of course you are free to think anything you like, even if it as odds with reality. I think CH has proved to us all (or at least to me) that it is possible to be absolutely and totally convinced about a position that has no basis in fact and further that it is possible to defend such a position on and on and on and on.... (if I needed convincing of such a thing, which I didn't)

Good word, equipoise, but you won't find it in the dictionary definition. Perhaps you had not read the dictionary definition? Read it now. I am in perfect accord with it. (definitions a and b)

ag·nos·tic (g-nstk)
n.

1.
a.One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
b.One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
2.One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
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