Is agnosticism a cop-out?

IBDaMann said:
Have you relegated yourself to denying the words "adeist" and "adeism"? I take it that because you don't find it on the internet that these weren't common words prior to the internet, but that you don't know this because you dropped out of middle school and as such, you don't know how to apply suffixes and prefixes. Anyway, the correct answer to your question is that deism is a belief in deities and adeism is the lack of belief in deities.
So, let's recognize that you know nothing, and when you are embarrassed, you need to blame others instead of learning.
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Show me an example of anywhere adeism has been used.....ever.
 
IBDaMann said:
I can't help you any more than to recommend you learn the Greek prefix "a". I cannot fathom why any rational adult would deny this particular prefix but I can understand why you, a dishonest purveyor of nonsense, would.
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I'm not denying the existence of a prefix. Nice straw man.
 
I've never really engaged "militant atheists."

The ones that I personally know don't really care what other people believe
unless the latter strive to incorporate their beliefs into the laws of the land,
the rules of the club, the operation of the school, the standards of the community, etc.

Unfortunately, that's too often the case, I suppose.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I've never really engaged "militant atheists."
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There are a lot of these guys on the internet.

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ZenMode said:
Show me an example of anywhere adeism has been used.....ever.
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Older Reddit Discussion

Is there a meaningful distinction between "atheist" and "adeist"?​

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/?f=flair_name:"All"
I believe there is. My main objections are with people's depictions of the specific gods they believe in. I don't have an objection with the basic idea of a "fundamental ground of all being" or a "first cause". While I don't agree with everything in the article linked below, I do agree with their opening statements. Basically, "I am an agnostic adeist and a gnostic atheist". I think the "first cause" concept worth looking into, though there is not enough to firmly assert it's existence. While I do reject people's depictions of their gods (Zeus, Yahweh, Allah, Vishnu, etc.) as "anthropomorphic projections".

As a side topic, I wonder why the term "adeist" has never come up (as far as I've seen) in all the discussion about terminology on this sub. With all the arguing about "what is an atheist" I've never seen "adeist" mentioned.
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another discussion thread

A semantic/terminological concern: atheism vs "adeism", multiple meanings of "antitheist"?​

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IBDaMann said:
This comes down to the difference between theism as a class and particular instances of theism.

It is not correct to say that I do not care whether any deities or supernatural beings exist, solely on the basis of my not having been convinced of the existence of certain specific deities or beings. I very much care, but what I believe about nature and the potential supernatural doesn't jive with any specific theisms thus far presented to me.

The only context within which you can say that I might not care is within one in which I have not been convinced. For example, I confess to not really caring about the inversion matrifold of Pluto's purple leprechauns, and I'm fairly certain that you don't care all that much either. Christianity is an example of a theism of which you have been convinced and about which you care, whereas I have not yet been convinced, but I'll happily discuss. Of course, the difficulty of so convincing me is irrelevant; that is not an objective measure that I can somehow control.
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Well call an agreement here then.
 
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