Penn Jillette

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Penn Jillette | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 14 Jan 2026 podcast

But in the absence of any information, do I actively believe?

And if you don't actively believe, the term is atheist.

Now, I'm being very pedantic and unpleasant about this.

The way it's used colloquially is very, very different.

Agnostic is usually considered to be just atheist light.

But...

For me, it's a very important philosophical thing.

I don't know, so I don't actively believe.

So, you know, to use an absurd example, you know, I can't prove to you there aren't elves that live in my toaster, but until I see some evidence, I'm not believing that.

The instant there's evidence, the instant I become a believer.

You know, I

That is, I believe, a straw man.

I'm friends with Richard Dawkins.

I know Lawrence Krauss.

I know Sam Harris.

I know the horsemen of the atheists.

The four horsemen of the atheist apocalypse.

You throw Hitchens in there, but you know Hitchens died.

And even Hitchens, even Dawkins, who are usually held up as the bad guy atheists, I never heard...

either of them, in conversation, hanging out loosely, or in any of their writings, say, I know there's no God.

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