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You could have just looked up the definition: "a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God."
Agnostics can believe in a higher power, that is why they are not the same as atheists. One can have religious agnostics.
Atheist does not mean non-belief in a higher power, it means non-belief in a deity defined by any judaic religion. Some believe in existence beyond being human on planet earth and some don't.
Atheist does not mean non-belief in a higher power, it means non-belief in a deity defined by any judaic religion. Some believe in existence beyond being human on planet earth and some don't.
A = without
Theos = god
Atheist = person without a god
It isn't specific to the Abrahamic religions. If you believe in Odin or Krishna or Chthulu, you are not an atheist.
While the definition DOES allow one to believe in an afterlife so long as it's not provided by a deity, it would be very rare for an atheist to do that. I am also not aware of any non-theistic religions (e.g., Buddhism, Taoism) that have a sequential afterlife similar to the abrahamic religions or spiritualists, though they do have a cyclic one.
Some of them well might, yeah. Probably more of them are atheists.
'Agnosticism' is basically just the position that the existence of a God, or the supernatural or whatever other divine mystical claim, etc., is unknown, or unknowable. It overlaps with theism/atheism- it's a different question than the question of whether you believe in x or not, or choose to have faith in something or not.
I'm an agnostic to many questions. Including many God/deism type questions or other big questions about existence. Which, I usually mean the word in the soft/weak sense- that the question is currently unknown. I usually stay away from describing things in any hard/strong agnosticism, which, is a position that holds that something is impossible to know.
I'm not an agnostic to the Christian God, because I believe we can know whether a logically impossible or a thing with self-contradicting properties exists. I'm a strong atheist to that dude.
A agnostic questions the existence of God. They neither believe or disbelieve. They need proof. aka Doubting Thomas
A atheist doesn't believe God exists.
A deist believes in god but not religion but also believes that a creator God doesn't interfere or interact with the universe
A theist believes god does interact and can either be religious or not.
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