I’m curious if there’s a name to the belief I have. I wouldn’t exactly call it atheist, though i generally lean that way, but I wouldn’t call it non-theist. The thing is, I just plain don’t care if God exists or not. They could, or they couldn’t, it really has no bearing on how I live my life. For that reason along I think I go in the atheist camp, but I always thought that was used to describe people who don’t think he exists.

  • bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Theism is belief in a god, atheism is a lack of belief. Atheism is not necessarily a belief that god does not exist. Gnostic is about knowledge and not belief, which is why you can have an agnostic theist. Agnostic is not a middle ground between theism and atheism, there is no middle ground. I can correct you, but I can’t make you understand it.

    • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      And I can’t beat knowledge into the unreceptive, ignorant and assumptive, so I guess we’re at an impasse.

      • bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Yes, I’m on one side, with dictionaries, etymology, and the majority of atheists, and you’re on the other side. I would agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.

        Google:

        noun: atheism. disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.

        Gnostic - adjective. relating to knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.

        Me:

        Theism is belief in a god, atheism is a lack of belief. Atheism is not necessarily a belief that god does not exist.

        Gnostic is about knowledge and not belief