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Originally Posted by Janszoon
They most certainly are compatible, for the reasons I have already described. Your logic is based on misperceptions that, while common, are nevertheless incorrect. There's a nice little explanation of how they're compatible here that might clarify things a bit. |
I see where the running point lies here, and it may be that I myself am an atheist and thus reject the existence of a deity. I reckon that the concept of a deity itself implies a belief thoroughly which renders every stand that implies even the mere
possibility of a god as theist. An agnostic, by the definition of someone who claims not to have the capabilities to know wether or not there is a god and thus
within the theist context does not exclude the possibility of a god, is therefore subject of a non-atheist position, i.e. a theist position as a result of that. It's a negative exclusion, not a positive which may cause misinterpretation.