Apatheism, or Thumbing My Nose at Dawkins, the Pope, et al.

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Apatheism is a portmanteau of apathy and theism. It changes the traditional triad of theist, agnostic, and atheist into a tetrad. The traditional triad concerns itself with possible beliefs and with the possibility of knowledge of God. The theist asserts that there is a God, while the atheist contrarily gives us to understand that God does not exist. And the agnostic is unsure that the…