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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly. As I say, rationally speaking it is the only logical position to hold, and I see neither more nor less reason to believe in "god" than I do the "tooth fairy". Do you? I _very_ strongly suspect that neither exist, but I cannot absolutely prove this to be the case.
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That's exactly my point about the usefulness of that definition of atheism. There's a world of difference between the agnosticism that rational people hold about the tooth fairy and the "I'm unsure" agnosticism that many hold with respect to god. Your definition deletes that difference.
If you put the proablility of god's existence on a par with that of the easter bunny, then you're a functional atheist in my book. (The alternative is to be "agnostic" on *everything* - and I mean *everything*).
/JB