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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

As an internet and real-life atheist ...yeah. Most atheists just don't talk much about their non-belief, because there isn't much to talk about, so in dedicated atheism communities, you mostly see those that are almost anti-theist...

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Most people are probably agnostic anyway

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

The distinction is just semantics in my mind, too, yeah. I hold the same position as agnostics, in that I do not believe this whole god concept can be disproven, because it is not rigorously formulated like a scientific thesis.

But I put that as "I do not believe that there is a god" and respectively I call myself an atheist, because well, there's many other things which cannot be disproven, like for example Big Foot.

And if a kid were to ask me, whether Big Foot exists, I'm not going to lead with "we really can't know". That's just misleading.
I guess, agnostics differentiate between gods and Big Foot, because there's so many more people who are convinced of these gods' existence. But yeah, I don't do that either, because I've seen how many people are willing to believe climate change isn't real. Lots of people believing something is just not an argument to me anymore.

[-] Enkimaru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Neither atheism nor any "real religion" has to do anything with proving. Agnostics: there might be a god, but I do not know ... never saw one! Does that count? Atheist: I am convinced there are no gods (but can not prove it: how the funk do you prove a non existing?) Bottom line, I do not care. Just like an Agnostics, I am just convinced and he leaves it open to surprise, when he dies ... or when ever he meets a god(dess).

And I most certainly have not any desire to convince a believer that his believes are BS. Because: I am an Atheist: I do not fucking care about his/her believes!!

[-] CXORA@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, most theists and atheists are agnostic.

Which makes it a rather pointless label.

this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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