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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: PinotPete ✧☼🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Not that again
Date: 12/04/25 10:58 AM
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And I don't use "agnostic". I am not a theist, therefore, I am an a-theist. If you say you don't know, you're an atheist.

I think you can be both an agnostic and an atheist, but the key difference to me is that one term is about knowledge (agnostic) and the other belief (atheist). An agnostic says, "I don't have the knowledge/evident of a god" while an atheist says, "there are no gods that I believe in." Agnostics theoretically are open to knowledge of a god if it could be provided. Atheists say that there are no gods I believe in despite what others may say they believe. Much the same in many ways, but starting from a different point.

Pete
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