[vhawk01]

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The amount of squabble over the last couple days in this forum over the definition of atheism/agnosticism is ridiculous.

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Mainly because its pretty important for the "enlightened, sophisticated" agnostics and moderate theists to be able to call atheists morons and fundamentalists and "just as bad as the theists" (which is my personal favorite insult). Some of us atheists don't like it when people a) tell us what we believe and refuse to listen when we tell them thats not it at all, and b) fail to make use of a dictionary.

I understand its a little ridiculous but so many discussions on this forum stall out over definitions, and there is a group of people who are INTENTIONALLY using non-standard definitions and then REFUSING to modify them when their error is pointed out to them. This is a pretty huge stumbling block to intelligent discourse.