Well, I could not find one so I thought I would make one. Because well there is more than atheist, christianity, etc..
Anyway, I am an agnostic theist. Anyone else agnostic?
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Well, I could not find one so I thought I would make one. Because well there is more than atheist, christianity, etc..
Anyway, I am an agnostic theist. Anyone else agnostic?
I would imagine that most are.
Even the theists - apart from those with delusions.
So, an agnostic thread...
Post #1: I'm an agnostic - I dunno.
Post #2: Wow! I don't know either.
Post #3: Are you sure?
Etc.
I'm probably a mix of Agnostic, Atheist, Deist, and whatever people are called who believe in Karma, (I know, superstitious, HAR HAR!) at any given time. But I'm atheist more often than not, so it's just easier to say I'm atheist, followed closely by the Karma thing. Deist and Agnostic are kind of farther back in the race for top ideology.
I do admit, though, when shit gets really tough I start "talking" to the sky wizard because it's a distraction from my problem and somewhat comforting, 'cause "maybe there is something out there that will fix this shit" (just like there might be magic elves that would clean my room for me while I slept when I was a kid... Don't know for sure, but sometimes if I wanted it bad enough and asked really nicely maybe they would show up this time)... but for all you true believers nothing comes from my "conversations." Don't try to convert and say "see? see?? you're ignoring Him." I'm not. They're wishes at best distractions at worst.
The Bible is completely out though! If the prerequisite to believing in God is believing the Bible then I'm a complete atheist. Ugh, that books make me Ill.
Oh yeah I do not believe in the bible at all. I mean the entire first chapter of genesis is contradiction against contradictions and not to mention inaccuracies. Anyway, yes I think that it is easier to "force" one's problem onto another entity, even if it imaginary. I find myself doing that at times too, although I never specify sex. Where does that idea come from, that god is male or regarded as such?
P.S. Oooh, where in Southern California are you? ^.^
From my perspective, Theism is mostly cultural, as the various beliefs throughout human history, such as Thor, Leprechauns, Witches flying on Broomsticks, all of which were thought to exist within their respective cultural bubbles, so imo an agnostic is someone with the capacity to say that the mystical/magical characters from other cultures dont exist, but unable or unwilling to call out the mystical/magical character from the culture he has been living in as not existing, because the frame of reference (cultural bubble) makes it a perceived possibility. For people in a community that firmly believes in Leprechauns, it would be understandable that someone might be unsure and say the are agnostic towards Leprechauns, "we dont know, there's no proof either way, maybe leprechauns dont exist but maybe they do", which is something that no one outside this culture would say.
I see a trend that a agnostic is just 'they who have doubt but are unwilling to proclaim a view absolute'. That a sitting on the fence option is the safe view, is not for some. Seek out the knowledge of scientific revue and you will climb down from that lofty fence post.. Atheism is the truth you seek but as yet are unwilling to see.
Stephen Colbert — ' Agnostics are just atheists without balls.'
I disagree with this. I am open to the belief of a deity, if there is enough evidence to support it. In the meantime, I am simply choosing to believe their is a deity. From my understanding from the atheist friends I have, is that they do not even accept that there may be a deity, no matter how much evidence is presented that there is.
Seen any?if there is enough evidence to support it
You believe in a deity. What make you agnostic? You're unsure of what kind of diety?
Not yet, and I probably will never see concrete proof of such deity.
Just as those who believe in the big bang theory, I too stick with both believing in that there may be an existence of such entity and disbelieve that it does exist. However, because I do at times of hard trouble find myself speaking up to a deity, I cannot disregard that and be a hypocrite and say that I refuse in the existence of a deity. So I choose to believe in at least one deity, but completely disbelieve that it involves in human life.
theist: I'm scared
agnostic: you're making me scared
atheist: I'm not scared at all
theist: God's watching, I better not
agnostic: God could be watching, maybe I shouldn't
atheist: I'll do it if it's worth doing
or
theist: God's watching, I better do this
agnostic: I better do this just in case there is a God watching
atheist: I'll do it if it's worth doing
theist: I promise to spread the word
agnostic: I promise to not forget what you said, it might come in handy
atheist: I promise to go along with whatever you say as long as there's something in it for me
rmb: If you haven't realized it by now I don't take god belief seriously. Believe whatever you want, leave it as a belief, don't add facts, and that's all you can do.
Evidence? Most atheists I know - and know of - say that there is no evidence of any supernatural being/s. They also say that they would have to rethink their position if any such evidence was available. The sorts of things that believers advance as evidence would never make the grade as objective or testable evidence.From my understanding from the atheist friends I have, is that they do not even accept that there may be a deity, no matter how much evidence is presented that there is.
My feeling about believers reporting that atheists "reject" evidence is that it's more like people talking past each other. The believer puts forward a statement that, to their mind, supports the existence of souls or spirits or god/s. The atheist responds that whatever-it-is is not evidence of anything.
I don't really care much for labels. I just go with "believe in yourself."
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