Agnostic Not Atheist!
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In my previous video I discussed the claim from Chris Bender that scientifically literate atheists don't exist. With him arguing that if the atheist was scientifically literate they would instead be agnostic. This video is something of a follow on from that. In this video I discuss another form of the argument that atheists should be agnostic. This time looking at the claim that all forms of weak atheism, including 'lack of belief' atheists and New Atheists, are not atheists but are agnostics. Due to the fact that they don't believe God exists and don't believe God does not exist. Pushing the idea that only strong atheism is a legitimate form of atheism. As I explain in this video, I think there is a distinction between the forms of weak atheists and agnostics that is far too often overlooked. I also discuss some of the reasons I think some theists push for the idea that weak atheists of all forms should be calling themselves agnostics, and some of the problematic behaviours from some forms of weak atheists.
References
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Agnosticism: https://www-rep-routledge-com/articles/thematic/agnosticism/v-1
Joe's article Evolution of Atheism: https://www.answers-in-reason.com/religion/atheism/evolution-of-atheism/
American Atheists: https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/about-atheism/
Randolf Richardson's Official Definition of Atheism: https://www.defineatheism.com/
Robert Flint's 1903 work Agnosticism: https://archive.org/details/agnosticism00flinuoft/page/8/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
Robert Ingersoll quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/
Definition of Polysemous: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polysemous
Baron d'Holbach on atheism: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7319/7319-h/7319-h.htm
Flew's 1972 paper The Presumption of Atheism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40230372
Oxford Dictionary of Atheism entry for Agnostic: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191816819.001.0001/acref-9780191816819-e-1?rskey=Oh19x6&result=1
Graham Oppy's 2021 paper Agnosticism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119009924.eopr0009
Wikipedia entry Negative and Positive Atheism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_atheism
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