[extropy-chat] Atheists launch inquisition...

[Hal Finney]

Mike Lorrey writes:
> I am asserting that in order to be an atheist, you must believe
> in the non-existence of god. To simply not have faith in or knowledge
> knowledge of god's existence is agnosticism.

Isn't it more reasonable to ascribe a probability to the existence of
the Jewish God, as well as to the Christian God, the Moslem God, and all
the other Gods who have been proposed to exist?  And of course, we would
ascribe a probability to the existence of any other hypothetical entity?

How would you classify someone who thought it was extremely improbable
that any of these Gods existed?  Atheist or agnostic?  Does it make a
difference how improbable they judge it to be?  Is there some specific
probability level below which a reasonable person could not (in your
judgement) classify God's existence?

Hal