• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    They seem quite confident as they proclaim their superiority over religious people and cannot comprehend why anyone would be religious.

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      4 days ago

      Sure. And nobody claimed “God doesn’t exist.” Two people now have told you that you’re mistaken, but you insist.

      From our perspective it seems like you’re imposing a baseless claim onto us so you can feel better about your own baseless claims. Only theists say atheism is a claim.

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        2 days ago

        There is no baseless claim it is the only reasonable claim from our current understanding of physics.

        Claiming that the universe magically came out of nothing is not an answer to some. It contradicts all of science especially the first and second laws of thermodynamics.

        Nonetheless you are still conflating Atheism and Agnosticism. These words exist for a reason they mean different things.

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          These words exist for a reason they mean different things.

          Correct, and you’re still misusing them according to the people who actually identify with these labels. Atheism is the answer to what you believe, and agnosticism is the answer to what you know.

          I don’t believe God exists and I don’t know if God exists, so I’m an agnostic atheist. For you to assume atheists are gnostic by default is like me assuming Christians are Mormons by default. It’d be even more ridiculous for me to go on and argue with Christians that “Christian” means “Mormon.”