Omooba224:
People tend to ignorantly term someone who doesn't belong to any "organized religion" as an atheist whereas there are different meanings to different religious terms.
I would like to briefly explain the the religious terms.
Agnostic: Someone who doubts the existence of God. A person who is uncertain whether there is God or not such thing. There are different forms of agnostic namely; atheist agnostic, theist agnostic etc
Atheist:[/b]A person that doesn't believe in the existence of a deity called God.

Omooba224:
People tend to ignorantly term someone who doesn't belong to any "organized religion" as an atheist whereas there are different meanings to different religious terms.
I would like to briefly explain the the religious terms.
Agnostic: Someone who doubts the existence of God. A person who is uncertain whether there is God or not such thing. There are different forms of agnostic namely; atheist agnostic, theist agnostic etc
Atheist:[/b]A person that doesn't believe in the existence of a deity called God. He believes that there is nothing like the Supreme Being.
[b]Deist: This person believes in the existence of the universal Creator through human reasoning. He believes that the universe is governed by natural laws and God is not what most "revealed religions" portrayed him to be. The Creator doesn't involve himself in human activities and doesn't not have human attitudes.
Theist: A person who believes in a god as a result of Scripture brought by His prophets. He believes that God sent prophets to this Mother Earth in order to send messages to mankind. We are monotheist and polytheist. Monotheistic religions are Judaism, Christianity, Islam etc.
Hope these terms are now clearer? Nobody knows the true religion of God. Let's endeavor to talk and live in harmony among ourselves. Let's try to respect people's decisions toward religion. The best thing that can ever happen to mankind is LOVE

Winna01:
Nice post and great explanation. But, which one are you? I'm a deist.

Akdegreat:

Winner01 ??

IDRWFB:
Op atheists are different from agnostics. Even your definition is conflicting. Atheism is a belief

frank317:


Peoples.decision towards religion can never be respected with christians telling u that u will go to hell for not believing in their crap.
Gone are the days when i was willing to respect beliefs
.. right now if u preach me crap i will challenge u and in five minutes u will get ur self running 4040

IDRWFB:
Winner01 is a Christian.
https://www.nairaland.com/winner01 That's an impostor.

Akdegreat:
Winner01 ??

IDRWFB:
Op atheists are different from agnostics. Even your definition is conflicting. Atheism is a belief

Omooba224:
Thank you for the observation. I said there are "atheist agnostic or agnostic atheist" and "theist agnostic or agnostic theist". A person is said to be agnostic atheist if he has no valid knowledge of the non-existence of God while an Agnostic theist is a person that believes a god exists but he is still doubting His existence because he has no knowledge about the god. Mind you "Belief" is different from "Knowledge"..

johnydon22:


I am sorry it is not that simple. It is a broad term for unbelief, so whether gnostic or agnostic atheism, both are still classified as atheism

Winna01:
I'm no impostor. mind your words.

Omooba224:
Thank you for the observation. I said there are "atheist agnostic or agnostic atheist" and "theist agnostic or agnostic theist". A person is said to be agnostic atheist if he has no valid knowledge of the non-existence of God while an Agnostic theist is a person that believes a god exists but he is still doubting His existence because he has no knowledge about the god. Mind you "Belief" is different from "Knowledge"..

IDRWFB:
You may not be an impostor but perhaps the knowledge of his username gave birth to yours. My apologies.

frank317:


Peoples.decision towards religion can never be respected with christians telling u that u will go to hell for not believing in their crap.
Gone are the days when i was willing to respect beliefs
.. right now if u preach me crap i will challenge u and in five minutes u will get ur self running 4040

Akdegreat:

Winner01 ??

winner01:
No, apparently winna01 likes the name and numbers.

Winna01:
hahaha. It's just a coincidence; WINNA is from my name and I chose 01 'cause I thought I was the first.

IDRWFB:
Totally conflicting @ the words in bold. I bet we should also define a theist atheist or gnostic agnostic. LMAO.

winner01:
You haven't been challenging Christians here, you've been ridiculing and mocking Christians, even those who didn't preach to you. That's unhealthy.

I remember my Teacher in junior school, warning me that I will fail if I don't study hard. I didn't challenge her and I'm better off.

I can also decide to come down to your level, and be unwilling to respect an atheist who tells me: "I'm an accident of nature" or "when I'm dead, I'm dead" or "there is neither good nor bad" or "I shouldn't believe in a Creator" and other nonsenses.

Be free for once dude.

frank317:


If an atheist authoritatively tells u that u came from an accident(whatever that means) oga, tell him to prove to u and if at the end of the day u dont understand what the hell he is saying , tell him to go to hell with his useless belief