Atheist - Are you a strong atheist, weak, or agnostic? (religion, science)

[logician]

OK, I'll be a little more detailed about the subject - from wikipedia: maybe it will clarify the issue.


"
Strong atheism is the belief that deities do not exist. Weak atheism is the category including everyone who is neither a theist nor a strong atheist.
Strong atheists are necessarily explicit atheists: they consciously reject theism. Weak atheists, however can be either explicit or implicit atheists. Implicit atheists don't have theistic beliefs, but they have not consciously rejected those beliefs (possibly because they haven't heard of them). Some people consider infants to be implicit atheists (and therefore weak atheists); others maintain that to be considered any kind of an atheist, one must must be old enough, (and otherwise have the mental capacity) to be able to believe or disbelieve in gods if the idea of gods should be presented.
Agnosticism is distinct from weak atheism, though most weak atheists may be agnostics, and most agnostics may be weak atheists."

"Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning "without" and gnosis, "knowledge", translating to unknowable) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding metaphysics, afterlife or the existence of God, god(s), or deities — is unknown or inherently unknowable. Some agnostics take a stronger view that the concept of a deity is incoherent, thus meaningless and irrelevant to life."

What's the old joke, atheists know, agnostics don't know, and theists don't know they don't know.

[KaLi]

What would "humanism" fall into?

[Willamena]

Originally Posted by KaLi

What would "humanism" fall into?

Depends... are you an idealistic humanist, a materialistic humanist, or an ethical humanist?

[koan]

Thank God I'm an Atheist!

[Willamena]

Originally Posted by wanderer085

Just wondering about the non-theists out there, how many are strong atheists - i.e firmly believe there is no god, weak atheists - probably is no god, or agnostic - don't know, and why.

Well, agnostic doens't mean "don't know or why," but okay.

[KingNothing]

I see no reason to believe in a supernatural being that isn't powerful enough even to convince us of it's own existence.

I'd take that out of the original post. Many would argue God is certainly powerful enough to demonstrate yis (what's the possessive for ye?) existence, but has simply chosen not too.

[logician]

"Many would argue God is certainly powerful enough to demonstrate yis (what's the possessive for ye?) existence, but has simply chosen not too."

The easier answer is that no god exists.