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To be gnostic is to be absolutely certain of your position, so you can be a gnostic theist, (meaning you are 100% sure a god exists) or a gnostic atheist (you are 100% certain no god exists) or have varying degrees of agnosticism, meaning that you are not sure either way, even if you strongly lean one way or another.
Stars formed, planets coalesced, and on at least one of them life took root.
Through a long process of evolution this life developed into the human race.
Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .
All of that so we can argue about nothing.
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Theism is completely made up by humans and has zero ground in reality. That makes it obsolete in my eyes, and I do not take the possibility of god's existence seriously. Can I prove that it does not exist? No, but nor do I need to. I also cannot prove that invisible pink unicorns do not exist, but that does not mean that their existence is a possibility to be considered.
God does not exist, and the whole idea of god is utterly ridiculous. People should think about matters relevant to their lives, and while fantasising is okay and can even be useful, one should always know where reality ends and fantasy starts.
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Prejudice-
1 : injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prejudice
GOD exists it is the written number of eighty-nine using letters and mathematics, I do see quite clearly however where the disconnect form religious prejudice does not exist.
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Strictly speaking, yes. But I do not consider it as a possibility either.
Suppose you are driving on a highway; you close your eyes and press on gas fully. If you do so, you know well that you will be dead or, at least, severely hurt 10 minutes from now. Do you know it with 100% certainty? No, but you know it well enough that you will not seriously consider any alternatives.
It is a bit like this here. I do not have a mathematical proof that god does not exist, but I know in my mind that the possibility of its existence is not something I need to think about.
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Are you not throwing away the futility of worshiping Jesus when you deny the reality of Vishnu? Has he not revealed his truth to you?
Stars formed, planets coalesced, and on at least one of them life took root.
Through a long process of evolution this life developed into the human race.
Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .
All of that so we can argue about nothing.
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This is kind of a semantic difference, but just acting as if god exists doesn't mean you are sure it does, in order to be considered "not agnostic" you have to be gnostic, meaning 100% sure. Thus belief lies on a spectrum, Dawkins uses 1-7, 1 being 100% theist, 7 100% atheist, and everything else varying shades of agnostic. The argument the OP makes is that no one is a complete 1 or 7, but rather just comes very close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probability
Stars formed, planets coalesced, and on at least one of them life took root.
Through a long process of evolution this life developed into the human race.
Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .
All of that so we can argue about nothing.
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After all, technically speaking, even a staunch atheist would be 99.9999% atheist owing to the infintesimally small reason of doubt that God cannot be ruled out.
So, we are all agnostic in that, if one were to consider the number of religions and Gods worshiped (there are currently around 10,000) a Christian, for example would reject 9,999 religions.
And really, the only difference between a Christian and say Richard Dawkins is that Dawkins disbelieves only one more religion than the Christian.
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