I would be inclined to think skepticism and agnosticism would be more highly correlated? Or does atheist title subsume agnostics?
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Replying to @Manathemist @clayroutledge
Everyone is agnostic coz the existence of God is unknown. It's not a useful term except in philosophical sense of 'unknowable.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose @clayroutledge
I suspect devout catholics wouldn't describe themselves as agnostic, and they believe in spite of lack of evidence.
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Replying to @Manathemist
No. But they are anyway if we understand agnosticism to be a lack of knowledge. They're defined by what they believe not what they know.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Agnosticism, as I understand it, is a position of witholding any judgement due to lack of knowledge, not just lack of knowledge itself
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Replying to @Manathemist @HPluckrose
Both theists and atheists have opted to make a judgement in spite of lack of evidence.
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Replying to @Manathemist
Yeah but the atheists judgement is often that there's a lack of evidence so no reason to believe yet. If some emerges, we will.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And that's exactly my point; in absence of evidence, atheists take a definitive position which necessarily implies faith or belief.
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Replying to @Manathemist
If you say so. But then disbelief in anything becomes faith - even Santa - and I don't think this is meaningful.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Most ppl who disbelieve in gods don't give much thought to the whole concept. In the uk, anyway. It's just another mythical being claim.
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People who believe in a god or give thought to the concept often see it as special & requiring a position. Others just don't have the belief
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