ext_13277 ([identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] demiurgent 2007-12-03 07:46 pm (UTC)

As Jay's already pointed out, you're badly misusing the word.

But let's leave that aside.

Since you've radically redefined "non-theist" to itself be a theistic position, the question you're begging jumps right out, to me:

What do you call someone who lacks belief in gods?

Not someone who believes that all unknown things are totally impossible (I call that person an "idiot", not an "atheist" as you do), but someone who thinks Jesus and Thor and L Ron Hubbard all have equal credibility, which is to say "none"? Someone who says "there's not one single bit of credible positive evidence for any assertion of the existence of any culturally postulated supernatural being, therefor I believe in no culturally postulated supernatural beings"

Someone who considers that entities whose existence cannot be perceived nor subsidiary effects of their existence noticed are, obviously, totally irrelevant entities, and considering whether or not completely irrelevant things exist is a waste of time and effort?

You've said you're an agnostic because you think there really might be something that can't be seen and can't be interacted with in any way out there, and that thing might be God. Good for you. What does that make someone who shares your complete lack of belief in any and all gods, and who simply goes one step further to saying "if it doesn't affect existence, it obviously doesn't matter".

What are they?

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