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Originally Posted by Max Cow Disease
"Gnostic atheism" is a flawed position, and leaves one incredibly susceptible to defeat in an argument against religion. In adopting the stance, you're essentially surrendering any advantageous high ground you may have had, and are sinking to the level of the theist/deist by taking things on faith alone (less faith, as it may seem, but faith nonetheless).
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That's not true 100% of the time; if the being proposed is a logical impossibility, it isn't a faith-based position to say "That can't exist because - as proposed - the being's inherent properties contradict each other".