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Thread #100330   Message #2010641
Posted By: GUEST,meself
29-Mar-07 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: New things about atheism
Subject: RE: BS: New things about atheism
(Re: Amos's post). But I think that is exactly what most atheists DO reject. I don't think that the term atheism necessarily implies the rejection of ANY notion of spirituality, divine force, the supernatural. To my mind, it implies the rejection of the concept of "God". Beyond that, an atheist can anything from an extreme rationalist to someone who has foggy apprehensions of spiritual existence but who, again, rejects the notion of a "God". To my mind.

An agnostic, on the other hand, I've always understood to be someone who merely rejects organized religion, not necessarily someone who rejects the idea of the white-bearded Man on a cloud ...