The evening after the massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, a California pastor took the opportunity to preach that "God said: When you find a sodomite, put them to death.'" A video of the sermon was uploaded by the church, then deleted "for violating YouTube's policy on hate speech." A copy of the video uploaded by someone else, describing the sermon as "despicable," was allowed to remain.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 15 2016, @09:30PM
Sooooort of. I usually express this as a dual-axis statement: atheism/theism on the X axis as a belief claim, and gnosticism/agnosticism on the Y axis as a knowledge claim. So that gives us gnostic and agnostic theists, and gnostic and agnostic atheists. Most atheists are agnostic atheists; I suspect there are very few who are epistemilogically arrogant enough to claim perfect knowledge that there is nothing, anywhere, in any way shape or form that matches any definition of God, though it is perfectly reasonable to express gnostic atheism about *specific* God-concepts.
I would technically be an agnostic theist, though this is only because deism, pantheism, panpsychism, etc. all get lumped into the "theist" half of the coordinate plane here.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...