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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
"Claims to know god doesn't exist"
I claim what doesn't exist, doesn't exist. There needs to be at least a shred of evidence of an existence for me to feel confident it doesn't exist. If it never existed then there's really nothing to know or feel confident about because it's not really debateable.
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I think this has mostly to do with our general sloppiness in the usage of language. We "know" things without claiming to have perfect knowledge, or we mistake confidence for knowledge. I think that when it gets right down to it there are not actually any gnostic atheists. Gnostic theists, on the other hand are abundant, and the reason for this is because millions or billions of people continue to have religious experiences and are either unaware of or unwilling to accept the completely naturalistic explanations for them.