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he's not contradicting himself. because agnosticism is the belief that while the idea of there being a god is not something we can ever know, or be sure we could know the person holding the agnostic belief still errs on the side of belief that there is despite not knowing for sure if there is or isn't.
this is the basic definition of agnosticism as i have always understood it. so he is not contradicting himself whatsoever.
there is an ambivalency about god, if god is a creator or not. it doesnt matter if me or you were to agree or disagree with this, calling someone an idiot simply for having an opinion, but not being able to back this up, is pretty much idiocy.
he doesn't know if there is a god, and he is skeptical that this question could ever be satisfactorily answered. but he errs on the side of belief, despite/because? of this.
now if you were to make some point about these subjects that was intended to be anything other than trollish, that would be the non idiot thing to do.
as it is, by inferring the idea he is an idiot over and over again, you are acting awfully like that idiot you keep mentioning. but you know this already.
you know what you could have done? you could have explained your point without trying to use it to justify the proposition that he is an idiot. you could still do this, and drop the whole idiot thing.
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