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Originally Posted by Cain
I just kinda want to throw this out there, as I saw it earlier in the thread even though it is not being debated currently.
Regarding Athiesm and Agnosticism. I would wager that there are far fewer athiests than agnostics. However, most people tend to lump agnostics together, which is far far far from true. I believe that there is a spectrum, where at one end, the devout theists reside, and at the other, the absolute athiests. In between these two remain all the agnostics...but there can be a huge difference in their belief systems.
I am an agnostic. we'll say sitting at the 10-15% mark (with theists at 100, athiests at 0). There "could" be a god. I find it very improbable that there is, but I cannot discount the possibility.
I do think that pure athiesm is fundamentally as flawed as pure theism, BUT I think that most athiests are wrongly classified, and are really just very low on the spectrum. I could be wrong, just my thoughts.
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The definition of atheism is that they don't believe in God at all. If they think there's a remote possibility, they are not an athiest, they are agnostic. Either the door is open or it isn't. Open a smidgeon is still open.
*Edit* I should clarify. I think you're not necessarily wrong but it's that agnostics wrongfully categorize themselves as atheist when they've indeed left the door open.