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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (494790)	7/18/2022 2:20:47 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543184

First let me say, atheists and not saying atheists KNOW, they are saying they believe. Huge differences most non atheists don't understand!! They always want to say" how can you know for sure"? You can't, but you can have an opinion. There is no research I know of that says being an agnostic is any more tolerant of religious beliefs than atheists, and I would argue are probably more tolerant of different cultures and religions than religious people. Atheists are not absolutists. They simply believe there is no deity based on what they see. Agnostics are not sure. And I would argue the atheists are seeing reality better than the agnostics. So are they better thinkers :>)>? There is not even one shred, EVER, of evidence that has ever been proved for ANY religion, SO what is an agnostics doubt based on??? Charles Pierce (the rightful originator of pragmatism) said:" we are all, at any time, in one of three states about anything Belief, Doubt or Disbelief. And we can change these states by new information, but we have no power over of what state we are in at any given moment. Cheers. < An absolutist atheist MIGHT accept secular but ALL secularists accept atheists AND religions (and in between.) By definition.