I’m curious if there’s a name to the belief I have. I wouldn’t exactly call it atheist, though i generally lean that way, but I wouldn’t call it non-theist. The thing is, I just plain don’t care if God exists or not. They could, or they couldn’t, it really has no bearing on how I live my life. For that reason along I think I go in the atheist camp, but I always thought that was used to describe people who don’t think he exists.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    what I call Atheist. You don’t care if one exists or not.

    The classical Atheist cares. He finds it important that God does not exist.

    This here is an Agnostic.

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      Nope, he finds it important no one uses what to him is a fictional character to push laws and regulations. You would also care if people prohibited you from doing something you like to do or think is important because Superman said it was wrong.

      That’s a big difference, in general atheist don’t care about God(s), they care about people trying to use God(s) to push an agenda, but the people who’re trying to use God(s) to push that agenda rarely see the difference.

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      12 hours ago

      You’re thinking of anti-theist.

      Antitheism, also spelled anti-theism, is the philosophical position that theism should be opposed.

      Atheists can merely not care if there was a god because they don’t see any proof of it.

      Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

      Atheism can also be more anti than that, but isn’t necessarily always that way

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      17 hours ago

      The classical Atheist cares. He finds it important that God does not exist.

      I see you fall into my second line of lumping Atheists with anti-theists.

      Agnostic is you believe there is something equating to a god but don’t believe in God

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        You’re capitalising God to mean some abraamic god or just whichever currently proposed god?