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Originally Posted by watsup1000
"Yeah. I get that. But I've never met a real atheist face to face. All that claim to be turn out to be agnostic.
Well, it's not face-to-face, but I am indeed a committed atheist/Humanist.
BTW, I don't wear my atheism on my sleeve (my Humanism perhaps, and so I only discuss it with those who seem to have some mental acumen and a deep commitment to their "faith". I'm not out to "win converts", but only to offer alternatives. Although I do mention Humanism more often than atheism because that is what I consider myself.
I have lived next door to a minister for 15 years or so and we have never discussed it. He probably suspects it because he picked up my mail when I was on vacation and it had a letter from the American Humanist Association. Then again, a great many religionists don't even know what Humanism is, not to mention the general public.
No, I am not an agnostic. I'm not a fence-sitter. There is no actual objective evidence for the existence of an entity called "God", any more than there is for wood fairies or bigfoot, and thus I don't "believe" in any of them.
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Yeah. I've met a lot of folks on the internet that say they are atheist, but when we meet face to face (and occasionally we do) and discuss it, they ALWAYS turn out to be agnostic. In fact, I came across a few that even on the internet tried to claim that atheist and agnostic are really the same thing. They are literally trying to change the meaning of the word, "atheist".