RE: virus: Saints

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:03:51 -0000


> From: rpc man[SMTP:rpcman@hotmail.com]
>
> > ...no one can prove
> >> that there is not some kind of god - greater power than us -
> whatever
> >> you want to call it.
> >>
> >Exactly. That's why the most *rational* stance is not atheism,
> >but agnosticism.
>
> Atheism is not "proof that god does not exist" just as theism
> is not "proof that god exists". Theism is a belief--atheism
> is a lack of belief (and nothing more). Atheism will be rational
> until evidence of god is submitted.
>
I disagree. Lack of belief and nothing more is agnosticism.
Atheism is belief there is no god.

Robin