Re: Logically refuting atheism in favor of agnosticism
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My real claim behind this is that being an atheist takes as much faith as being a theist.
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Your real claim behind this, then, is based on a misunderstanding of the term. I would venture that the vast majority of atheists would agree with what you've said here. But there is often a certain connotation to using the term 'agnostic' that some atheists dislike, and so they use the term atheist. I guess it would require faith to be an 'atheist' as you seem to think some people are...but these people don't really exist. Atheists are really just agnostics who don't want to be confused with 'theists who don't like church,' which is the message often conveyed by the term agnostic.
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