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Mike Sweeten's avatar

Try try to hold on to agnostic. This has largely been a battle between atheists on the left (collectivism) vs atheists on the right (individualists). Atheism is a full rejection of the existence of the spiritual realm, especially one with a coherent system involved. If the problem of our society extends into anything remotely spiritual or even overly complicated, Atheism won't go there. It leaves us blind to the cause and crippled in our defense. So yeah, agnostic > atheist.

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JJS in AZ's avatar

I am an agnostic, as I said. I don't know what I don't know and I'm unwilling to assert that that which I doing know exists, or that it doesn't.

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Mike Sweeten's avatar

Noted. When I said "overly complicated", I meant from a spiritual standpoint where the spiritual intertwines with the subconscious and the psychological, not the physical. Team Reality has been absolutely phenomenal at debunking the Covidian scientific flaws and (especially Gato) making very complicated things understandable, even adding humor. I don't want to discredit that.

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