strong atheism
by Carolinefrom wikipedia, i learned that a strong atheist is one who actively rules out the existence of any god — as opposed to weak atheists, who don’t assert the same but merely lack a belief in god or gods.
no responses“it is not unusual for a person to be a strong atheist with respect to particular gods, but to be a weak atheist with respect to other gods. indeed, one may be (and in fact the majority of people are) theist with respect to one, or several, gods, and a strong atheist with respect to all other gods. for example, christians typically believe that god exists, but believe that zeus, thor, krishna, and so forth, do not. a typical strong atheist joke is that there is only a small difference between himself and a christian: they agree on a very long list of gods that don’t exist, and only disagree about one of them.”