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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-26 06:32 pm

[ SECRET POST #3065 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3065 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Witcher 3]


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[Shakin Stevens]


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[The Godfather II]


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[A Redtail's Dream]


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[David Lynch & David Cronenberg]


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[Laurell K. Hamilton]


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[Big Bang Theory]


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(Richard Dawkins)


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(Anonymous) 2015-05-26 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, seeing that atheists are obnoxious made you re-examine whether or not you believe in god? That does not follow.

(Anonymous) 2015-05-27 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Of course it does. Atheism is believing there is no god. Seeing the behaviour of actual atheists might make you follow that thought to its conclusion: That people who believe in gods are definitely wrong.

If you don't subscribe to that, you might decide that your primary religious alignment is not along the theistic/atheistic axis, but rather along the gnostic/agnostic axis. Most gnostics define themselves by the side of the theistic/atheistic axis they sit on, but plenty of closed/hard agnostics firmly define themselves by their position contrary gnostic positions, rather than as atheistic or theistic.

I can't tell whether AYRT is atheistic or not (they might still be, even if they are also agnostic), but there are DEFINITELY hard/closed agnostics that can not be considered atheist, and many of us came to this stance "through" atheism, much as the OP describes.

(Anonymous) 2015-05-27 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Atheism is a lack of belief in gods. Not necessarily an active disbelief.

Agnostic is "don't know if there's a god or not".

Nothing more, nothing less.