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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Being an Atheist who does not believe in God because there is no proof either way requires no faith. This is the Agnostic Atheist. Being an Atheist who strongly believes that there is no God requires faith. This is the Strong Atheist. I am the first, I do not believe that either can be proven, but when given the choice of nothing or something, nothing is the default option.
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My husband is also an agnostic-atheist, and I appreciate the distinction you've made between agnostic-atheist and a strong atheist (is this taken from a text or philosophy class of some kind, or did you come up with it on your own?).
I learned a lot about this throughout the process of planning our wedding... I thought ktspktsp wanted an atheist wedding, but really he wanted a secular one. An atheist wedding would have been rather militant/activist... reading literature/taking vows, etc that promoted the idea of NO GOD. Ktspktsp, though, wanted to simply remove the idea and mention of any God or religiously-associated texts, which we did (other than a slip on my mother's part, but that was my fault for not modifying the text at 4am). He was fine with having the literature and vows be spiritual/humanist, as long as it wasn't religious.
Anyway, just thought I'd throw that in there. Agnostic-atheism makes sense to me, though I'm just plain agnostic (with smatterings of Christianity and Buddhism).
