Non Swing Voter
Junior Chimp
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« on: December 18, 2019, 09:53:26 PM » |
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As reasonable of a shot as any other category of person that is only ~5% of the population.
There are a lot more people who are essentially atheist but identify themselves with diffrent terms.
I'd disagree that you even CAN be "essentially atheist" ... I mean, an atheist is someone who rejects ANY higher power or intelligence or first cause or whatever, not just a personal deity. If one has a hang up believing that the physical Universe (or multiverse) created itself from nothing with no first, external cause ... well, that person might not be a Christian and might not believe in the Biblical "God," but he is not an atheist. The Pew study says 33% of "Nones" do not believe in a higher power, which would put atheists at around 7.5%.
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