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Nobody can be an atheist.

Allow me to sidetrack this thread a bit as I explain why one can't be atheist.

To be an atheist, you'd have to say: "There is no god." However, reasonably, one can't say that.

To know whether there's a god or not, one would have to know 100% of all Knowledge, before they can say empirically that "there is no god". However, obviously nobody knows 100% of Knowledge.

Suppose one held 1% of Knowledge. How can he/she be absolutely sure that in the 99% of Knowledge that he/she doesn't know about, doesn't contain the proof of a god? At best one can only say: I don't know, but never: there isn't. In other words, your friends are agnostic, not atheist.

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