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- locustsloth0
Let's take the following statement:
"i believe that there is sentient life on another planet somewhere in the universe, do you?"
So what's your answer?
If it's yes, you are operating on faith.
If it's no, you are using current evidence to base your opinion.
In time, either viewpoint could be proven wrong.
Same goes for a belief in a higher power (god, whatever). You can exhibit faith that there is one. You can deny the presence of one based on a current absence of evidence. At any point in time, you could be proven wrong.
In my mind, atheists are just agnostics who are afraid of ambiguity.
i, personally, would count myself as an agnostic. i feel it's arrogant to say you know enough about our existence to definitively answer the question of whether there is a god or not.
It is amazing the power, freedom and comfort that allowing yourself to say "i don't know" can bring you.