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Re:Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist? by markup on Friday February 06, 2009 @02:39PM (#470219)
I am a strong agnostic... or strongly agnostic, I don't know what's the proper grammatical form. But I DO know strong agnosticism is what sums my own thoughts on god. :-)

(I don't get why you've been downmodded to -1, I have just +1'd you)

Re:Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist? by TrevorJ on Friday February 06, 2009 @03:41PM (#470316)
I believe that God exists, I however also believe that his existence cannot be proven empirically, what category does that put me in?
Re:Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist? by bendotc on Friday February 06, 2009 @05:04PM (#470454)
I believe lots of theists believe in God without believing in the possibility of an empirical truth. I've certainly met Christian scientists (not to be confused with Christian Scientists) who fall into this category. It would be silly to call them agnostics.

As another poster wrote, often times agnostics approach the question as one of knowledge, whereas most theists as well as "weak" atheists see it as a question of belief. We all (well, almost all) believe all sorts of things that we do not truly know.

Re:Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist? by TrevorJ on Friday February 06, 2009 @05:11PM (#470462)
To put a finer point on it, I DO believe in absolute truth, I just believe that the existence of God cannot be proven scientifically.
Re:Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist? by arakyd on Friday February 06, 2009 @05:41PM (#470508)
Not to put too fine a point on it, you're a theist.
Re:Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist? by markup on Friday February 06, 2009 @03:45PM (#470323)
Agnostic theism
Re:Poll: Atheist, Deist, Theist? by jpd on Friday February 06, 2009 @07:17PM (#470612)
Is it possible to feel strongly about being unsure?