Defining this, that and that...

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Often, Humanism is confused with various viewpoints on religion, such as atheist or agnostic views. Before I express my opinion on this topic in an upcoming post, I think its best to define all these terms first.

Extract from
Atheist vs Agnostic, Theist vs Gnostic :


Theism addresses the issue of belief. For any claim asserting the existence of a god, a theist is an individual who accepts (or positively believes) that the claim is true and an atheist (literally, "one without theism") is someone who does not.

Gnosticism (in the general sense being discussed here) addresses the issue of what one knows or claims to know. For any claim regarding the existence of a god, a gnostic is an individual who claims knowledge that the assertion is true and an agnostic (literally, "one who lacks knowledge") is someone who makes no such
claim.

Most often, people fall somewhere in between these extremes and the following combinations describe those well:

Posted by Archikins at 8:58 AM  

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