well, I guess you can use the word any way you want. I still think you are mistaken though. In your honor I am defining myself as purple for the rest of the weekend. Because purple*always* means "too much to do and reading email instead, right?"
Bad Dana. Bad purple Dana. Get back to work. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Justin, > > I think the problem between us may be that you're framing this from a > religious standpoint. Like I've said before, I do not know of any > atheist that I've met yet that will say 100% there is no possibility > of a god. Atheists are not anti-theists as they might be viewed from > a religious viewpoint. Atheist literally translates to "without gods" > -- no more, no less. Since you've also stated that I have a belief > system, this also makes me think you're looking at it from a religious > perspective. > > Regardless, I consider myself an atheist. You are more than welcome > consider me whatever you like, but please don't tell me I'm wrong > about myself. As for getting offended....I'm not really offended at > all, I just don't care for false assumptions being passed around as > fact. > > > > On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Justin Scott wrote: > > > > >> I have no evidence one way or the other to make > >> this decision. I can't make an assumption based > >> on incomplete evidence so I don't worry about it. > >> I'm considered an atheist because I don't have a > >> belief in a god, but I also don't have a belief > >> there is no god. It's really that simple. > > > > If that is the case, you're not an atheist, you're agnostic, just > > like me. > > Agnostic literally means "without knowledge." So really we're > > talking about > > the same thing; you're just using a different label for yourself which > > really doesn't fit your belief system. Atheists reject god > > entirely, but > > you just said you don't have a basis to decide whether to reject or > > accept > > god, so you're agnostic, not atheist. Definitely no need to get > > offended > > when someone states an opinion about atheism in that case. > > > > > > -Justin > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:301303 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
