clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> I personally do believe in the existence of a supreme something - and at 
> the same time I do believe that "the only entirely rational stance 
> towards a supreme being is that of an /agnostic/", so it may come to you 
> as no big surprise that I would classify myself as an agnostic.

The test whether you are an atheist or a theist is rather simple:

Would you say "I believe that a (theistic) god exists"?

> > The common claim "I'm not an atheist, I'm an agnostic" is an oxymoron.
> > It's like saying "I'm not European, I'm Finnish."

> That's nonsense, because all Finnish are European, but not all agnostics 
> are atheists.

I was talking about the *colloquial* usage of the term "agnostic", which
invariably means "I don't have a stance in one way or another on the
subject of whether a god exists."

(In philosophy "agnosticism" means something different, as I described
in my previous post.)

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                                                          - Warp

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