Yeah, try to be neither of those parents.
It’s fucking hard. My kids school has religious or ethics studies, we picked ethics for our first kid. About 3 weeks into term he mentioned something about god and I was like wtf where did he hear that and asked and he said in bible class… I was pretty upset and assume the school ignore us and put him in that class. A bit more questioning and worked out he picked it to be with his friends. We finally decided to let him continue and make up his own mind. His now in year 4, and I think he has done Catholic, Hebrew and Hindu just following different friends into which one he wants, just this year he said he doesn’t believe in god he just doesn’t like ethics…
Yeah also, we dislike organized religion not the concept of god itself. The 2nd panel should be “I’ve joined a socially-acceptable cult”. There’s nothing anti-atheist about God which can mean a million different things, not necessarily a creationist deity.
“Atheism - Absence of belief in the existence of deities/god; the opposite of theism”
You literally do the opposite. Maybe that’s your personal way of believing and that’s totally fine, but the term “atheism” has a official and specific definition. I’m a agnostic myself and I think a lot of people call themselves atheists but actually only oppose organized religion. If the concept of a god or the deities outside of religion is a theoretically possible concept for you, then you’re an agnostic!
Technically there are 4 basic positions and the two terms should be used together. Gnostic/Agnostic & theist/atheist.
Gnostics know their position is correct. Agnostics don’t.
Gnosticism deals with the problem of knowledge.
Theism deals with the problem of belief.
Many theists are gnostic. They know their God is real. Some theists are agnostic. They don’t know if their God is real, but they still believe in them.
Many atheists are agnostic. While they do not believe in a god, they do not know with certainty that gods do not exist.
From a theoretical standpoint, typically agnostic is the position most people should take, since the process of proving the existence/ non existence of God is typically considered impossible.
This terms weak/strong are also used to describe these positions where weak is the agnostic and strong is the gnostic position.
