re: #250 Tim TeaBro

I thinks it’s a little funny an atheist and an agnostic are arguing this point.

(pours a glass of wine and wonders if I should check the turkey AGAIN)

In the end, it’s all semantics. You believe what you believe. Atheist or agnostic are just words.

Because I was raised by believers - Mennonites who started out Methodist, but found themselves more in tune with the Pacifism of the Anabaptists - I have long taken pains to avoid offending believers. So, for years, even though I believed there is no god or gods, I called myself agnostic. Atheism had been presented to me as just as much a matter of faith as Theism.

But when I thought about it, I realized that it’s not. It’s a false dichotomy. It is not a statement of faith to say that something for which there is no evidence does not exist. It’s the Null Hypothesis. If you want to prove that something is true, you have to disprove the hypothesis that it isn’t.

So, I stopped hiding behind “I don’t know” and accepted that I simply don’t believe that there is a god or gods.