The fact is you can belong to an organization and not even enter a building where they meet. And many atheist are organize and meet online and also in person. They also spread their worldview in many ways.
Undoubtedly. Barbers and dog owners and D&D enthusiasts do the same thing - what's your point?
If atheists describe themselves in this way.......then tell me what the difference is between that and agnostic belief.
As others have reiterated a number of times: Theism/atheism is one's ontological position, one's stance (or lack thereof) on the existence or non-existence of deities. Gnosticism/agnosticism is one's epistemological stance on whether we
could know if deities exist or not.
A gnostic believes that we can, in principle, deduce the existence of God. This doesn't mean they
do believe in God, nor that they
don't believe in God. Similarly, agnostics believe that we can't, even in principle, deduce whether or not God exists. Someone can be a gnostic atheist (they believe you could, in principle, deduce God's existence, but doesn't think anyone's done that yet) or a gnostic theist (same thing, but they believe someone
has demonstrated the existence of deities).
And I don't understand this weak half weak, half strong, strong .........classification system for atheism. Its not that hard to identify what you beleive. You either beleive there is a God or you don't. No one can prove there is no God....so the best anyone can is that they are an agnostic...they just don't think so.
You're right, you either believe in God or you don't. The theist believes in God, and the atheist doesn't. That's the proper meaning of the word 'atheist' - 'a' + 'theist', 'not theist'.
But the crucial point is that an atheist, who doesn't believe in God, doesn't necessarily assert that God absolutely does not exist - they may very well reject both propositions because of an absence of evidence.
But there are two types of atheists. The Strong atheist asserts that there absolutely are no gods. The Weak atheist asserts neither the existence nor the non-existence of Gods.
It isn't that hard to understand. What you call an 'atheist', we call a 'strong atheist'. What you call an 'agnostic', we call a 'weak atheist'. The term 'atheist', then, encompassed both the strong and the weak types of atheism.
All beliefs are based on faith.
Tell me, as per your definition of 'agnostic', in what does an agnostic have faith?
