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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by KozmoNau7 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:27AM (#27490551)
Not really.

There are "I know that there is not a god" atheists, those are the insufferable unholier-than-thou types like Richard Dawkins, who seem mostly interested in provoking religious people.

And there are "there is no falsifiable proof at all to support the existence of a god" atheists, which are the ordinary sensible ones, who don't hate religious people, they just don't share their beliefs.

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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by fighterpilot on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:41AM (#27490899)
Dawkins is actually a weak atheist (agnostic atheist), not a strong atheist. He thinks an interpersonal God is highly improbable, but it's not possible to prove a negative and so he doesn't assert that it doesn't exist.
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