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Old 01-02-2008, 02:30 PM   #16 (permalink)
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The problem with defining terms that refer to God is that God is a term that isn't clearly defined. You can use a specific dictionary definition, but the common religious useage of the term God goes beyond any dictionary definition.

So, you can only be atheist or agnostic in relation to specific defintions of God. If the term 'God' isn't defined well enough(too vague, generalized, over-used, contradictory, etc), then maybe weak ignosticism would be valid. But ignosticisism wouldn't be valid towards a specific definition.
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