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Originally Posted by Gargamel
That makes you agnostic, not atheist.
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You can be atheist, AND agnostic, actually. Also, he is right, atheists are NOT dogmatic, they simply require the same evidence they'd require for any other decision of importance to make a decision. I am not "agnostic" about you being able to fly like superman, for example, I simply don't even think about it until you demonstrate that ability to my satisfaction before I entertain it.
The the post-enlightenment era, "theism" usually denotes a god that interferes with humanity and demands worship, vs "deism" is a god that made the universe, and remains unknown to his creations, and is in fact beyond knowing. I doubt even that, but it is impossible to discount, so I am agnostic to that, and atheistic, in that I think that every theist belief I have been exposed to is patently counter to reality, or not revealed---to ME. The so-called revealed religions (christianity, etc), are not in fact revealed, they are claimed to be revealed to someone other than me, and are just hearsay.