Matthew Le God

1) Those are predictions about what the result might be, not the actual result. 2) Existence is temporal, so a question regarding god's existence regards the present.

Sure, 'I don't know' is a perfectly reasonable answer to all of those questions. So what?

The result of a football match does not exist two days before the match. You were asking for the outcome of an event that hasn't happened. The god question concerns the existence of something in the present, so they are very different scenarios that aren't relevant to each other.

Why do you disagree? I didn't avoid the image you posted. I said that lack of belief is not in itself a belief. So it is not contradictory.

The question would need to be worded as 'Do you believe a god or gods exist?'

You have taken that post out of the context of what it was replying to. It was replying to a post about the belief in the existence or something, that is very different to asking about the result of a football match.

Lack of a belief is not a belief. You either believe a god exists or you do not currently believe a god exists. It is binary, one or the other.

I don't know 🙂

England men's football team play on Tuesday 😉 I don't know if they will win.

Why are you conflating hope and faith?

You are both making things up now. 🙄

Doesn't matter, you either currently believe a god(s) exist or you don't. If you haven't given it any thought then you don't currently hold a belief which makes you an atheist. If you don't claim knowledge then that further defines you as an agnostic atheist.

I've never claimed it applies to all questions. So it is bizarre you've twisted my words in such a way.

Nope, doesn't require conclusion. It is a statement of your current position which can be a fluid one open to change. If I had some good evidence the god of the Bible manifested in reality I'd believe it existed. I'm yet to see any good evidence for it however.

But the question concerns belief. Belief is binary, a person either believes in X or does not believe in X. If you don't know if X exists then you don't currently believe in it existing!

Why? You don't currently believe in a god = atheist You don't claim knowledge there are no god(s) = agnostic So that makes you an agnostic atheist.

Sure, as a child due to cultural adoption of the gesture. Not as an adult as it is superstitious nonsense.

What about that diagram do you think isn't correct?

If you think it is a possibility there is a god but don't currently hold the belief in a god that still puts you in the top left box of being an agnostic atheist.

'Don't know' and 'don't give a shit' are subsets of 'no'. So the choice is therefore binary... Yes or No.

Which of these are you and @Turkish? Every human on the planet is one of the four options.

That isn't true.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god(s), it doesn't require an underlying belief. If you don't have a belief in a god then that automatically makes you an atheist. Both theist and athiest can be further broken down into subsets if you bring claims of knowledge into the question. I'm an agnostic atheist. I don't claim there are no gods. I would however claim the god as described in the Bible doesn't exist as the description is deeply flawed and contradictory.

Because agnostic & gnostic deal with the question of knowledge and theism &atheism deal with belief. You don't appear to claim knowledge or believe in a god so that makes you an agnostic atheist. It is also possible to be a gnostic atheist, an agnostic theist and a gnostic theist.

If they don't believe in a god... then yes.