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Agnostic atheist (I should point out, you can't just be agnostic. Agnostic means you don't know, and therefor your next line is the position you hold by default. Most people think atheism requires gnosticism, which is patently absurd. I know of no one who claims to know there is no god.)
As to why? Theists have not met their burden of proof. There is not sufficient evidence that there is a god, so I presume there isn't by default. While I can accept those who believe, it disappoints me to see people believe something they can't actually give evidence for. As I have become ever more interested in science and logic, my previously protestant roots have withered, and I have realized just how terrible what I believed truly was. The sentence "You need faith" now burns me to the core. Faith is only good for coming up with hypotheses, not for proving theorems.
As to why? Theists have not met their burden of proof. There is not sufficient evidence that there is a god, so I presume there isn't by default. While I can accept those who believe, it disappoints me to see people believe something they can't actually give evidence for. As I have become ever more interested in science and logic, my previously protestant roots have withered, and I have realized just how terrible what I believed truly was. The sentence "You need faith" now burns me to the core. Faith is only good for coming up with hypotheses, not for proving theorems.
