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Originally Posted by SteelBlue
If he is then that misunderstanding extends to many agnostics. I've heard Lebowski's exact definition from the lips of just about every agnostic with whom I associate (there are several).
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They don't realize that there's not much difference betweem themselves and atheists. Most atheists are scientists, and intellecutals or academics, in my experience. Their "belief" in the absense of God is more like a presumption grounded in common earthly experience. People may prefer to call themseleves agnostics because "atheist" has a negative connotation, partly from the misconception that they have something like faith in the absense of God. They don't. They claim only to know what their senses tell them.