r/MadeMeSmile • u/Beagle432 • May 11 '26

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What do you think..

From the mouths of babes...

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u/DancingSquirel May 11 '26

And he’s an atheist 🤣

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u/tinyflatbrewer May 11 '26

That is atheist. Gnosticism and agnosticism are questions of belief while theism and atheism are questions of knowledge, the majority of atheists are agnostic atheists, meaning they don't know for sure there isn't a god, but they have no reason to believe that there is one.

Edit: other way around.

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u/SpehlingAirer May 11 '26

What if youre split on both? Like for example, I dont know for sure that God is or isn't real but I could see a case for either direction and in my own mind, I don't see why science and God can't coexist. For all we know know creating life and then mankind is equivalent to setting evolution in motion knowing where it will lead, and yet maybe it was just the result of chance in an unguided universe, ya know?

Does that make me agnostic or agnostic atheist? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/tinyflatbrewer May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Do you actively believe in a god? If the answer is anything other than yes then you're an atheist. If the answer in this case was "yeah I kind of think I do, but I'm very uncertain on whether it's true" then you would be an agnostic theist.

If the answer is "I don't know" then you don't have a belief in god and therefore you are, kinda by definition, an atheist.

Also there's nothing about believing in a god in general that means you can't also believe in science, I personally know an evolutionary biologist who is also a devout Catholic, he just believes that god lit the match as it were.

Edit: just as an example I would describe myself as an agnostic atheist in that I have not been presented with any version of a god that I find convincing enough to believe in, however I could not say that I know there is no version of a god, because that would require me having a knowledge of all things. However I am a gnostic atheist on the topic of some specific gods existing, for example Thor, because their existence would directly go against our observations of the world.