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I like to say I’m a polyatheist (note the a) rather than [mono]atheist. I disbelieve in many gods, not just in one big god. Regular monotheism is hedgehoggy, regular polytheism is foxy. Disbelief inverts this. Atheism is foxy, polyatheism is hedgehoggy.
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An atheist knows a thousand little reasons why God, singular, cannot exist (fossils, spaghetti monster, anthropic principle). A polyatheist knows 1 big reason why *any* god or multigodplex cannot exist. One of my few epistemic commitments that is hedgehoggy is polyatheism.
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I can’t precisely articulate my 1 big polyatheistic disbelief (and feel no particular need to do so, since I think theism/atheism debates are futile+pointless) but suffice it to say: polyatheism is as much stronger a position than atheism as atheism is stronger than agnosticism.
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I don't think this position, as I understand, is particularly tenable, because intelligibility of the external world, to our modern sensibilities (and certain ancient ones), relies on belief in the "god" of logical inference.