Re:The second-largest religion in each state
by lukevdp on Thursday June 05, 2014 @07:53PM
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Atheism is the lack of a belief in a god. You can categorise it into a subset of people who believe there is no god (positive atheism) and people who simply have no belief (negative atheism) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#Implicit_vs._explicit
Semantics perhaps but isn't a 'belief that there is no god'? I tend to think of agnosticism as a 'lack of belief in a god'
A unicorn agnostic would say "I have no evidence for the existence of unicorns, so there may or may not be unicorns" but a unicorn atheist would say "I have no evidence for the existence of unicorns, so I don't believe unicorns exist".
It is a matter of semantics.
Re:The second-largest religion in each state
by TheCoelacanth on Friday June 06, 2014 @11:47AM
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Agnosticism is a subset of atheism.
Re:The second-largest religion in each state
by esrauch on Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:37PM
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What if you can believe in god and have no religion?
Broadly speaking you would be a non religious theist.
If you believe a God exists and reject that it can be known through religion, that would make you a deist
Just because one does not have a religion does not make them atheist.
I have no religion and yet I am not an atheist.