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To: epicure who wrote (586549)	6/30/2004 2:49:42 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	of 769670

<<"A" is a negatory prefix- "a" theist means "not god" or "without God"- the atheist does not believe in God.>> Exactly. And not believing in god is different than believing there is no god. That's the difference between the strong and weak atheist positions. <<I am an agnostic, but get called an atheist quite frequently- I wish people more clearly understood the terms.>> The common usage of the terms is not always the same as what philosophers and atheists use. You're probably a weak atheist and agnostic, they're not mutually exclusive. You can read more here: infidels.org Some atheists go beyond a mere absence of belief in gods: they actively believe that particular gods, or all gods, do not exist. Just lacking belief in Gods is often referred to as the "weak atheist" position; whereas believing that gods do not (or cannot) exist is known as "strong atheism". The term 'agnosticism' was coined by Professor T.H. Huxley at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in 1876. He defined an agnostic as someone who disclaimed both ("strong") atheism and theism, and who believed that the question of whether a higher power existed was unsolved and insoluble. Another way of putting it is that an agnostic is someone who believes that we do not know for sure whether God exists. Some agnostics believe that we can never know. In recent years, however, the term agnostic has also been used to describe those who simply believe that the evidence for or against God is inconclusive, and therefore are undecided about the issue. There's more. Steve Dietrich

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