Since their are no absolutes in spiritual beliefs, why isn't everyone Agnostic?

Question

imaknightangel
No one NEEDS faith, some just find it comforting.

Answer 1

It's simple: Thinking for yourself, or thinking outside the proscribed 'box' of religious faith is really scary.

Ask yourself this: Why do hardline fundementalists (of all religions) discourage education outside their control? Its simple: if people learned that there was a world outside that proscribed 'box', free of fear and hatred and dogma, many of them would want to explore it, and then become 'contaminated' with outside ideas.

Most people need some sort of religious belief. And the vast majority of them will never step beyond the bounds of those beliefs. We must be as compassionate to them as we would anyone else- even if they hate us.

Answer 2

i'm a non-feminist and agnostic, bordering on atheism. i'm not area of any faith and that i don't believe in a unsleeping more advantageous skill, yet I do imagine there will be some style of potential interior the international and that i'm a strong believer interior the potential of nature. i imagine politics and spirituality and best kept aside, because I see non secular beliefs as own and concerning on your own moves, while your political critiques impression a much wider circle of people. My concepts on gender probably bypass alongside with my spirituality... I position extra emphasis on attempting to make this international a extra acceptable position and treating people both truly than questioning about the afterlife. i'm truly classic myself, yet people can stay even if they prefer see you later as they're not hurting all of us. faith should be something that frees you, not oppresses or confines you.

Answer 3

Well, how do most people get their beliefs? The majority are raised with it. When children who ask the simplest questions like "Why can't I see God" ask them they are told he exists because we believe this. They are raised going to their respective houses of worship and it becomes a part of them. Most don't question after that point; and when they do they are treated like they are abnormal which is highly unfair.

Ideas, beliefs and customs passed from generation to generation of family are not an easy thing to break free from... some do, some would like to but don't and some just believe what they were raised with as absolute truth.

Answer 4

Reasonable doubt. Actually, think of it this way: we are all born atheists. Why should that change without any compelling argument or evidence otherwise. I mean, what if you grew up atheist, then one day ran accross some nutball throwing coconuts in the volcano to appease an invisible being? Would that necessitate you becoming an agnostic because you disagree with that person? Atheist by DEFAULT.

Answer 5

Everyone is agnostic.

Agnostic is one of the most meaningless words ever invented.

It means "without knowledge" but agnostics interpret it to mean "cannot know." Using that definition we are all agnostics since anything is possible.

Possible and likely are not equivalent. Agnostics are people afraid to express their opinions, so they hide behind a meaningless word.

Answer 6

I think most people actually are. All it really means is that you can't prove or disprove the existance of god. Which is true, almost everyone would agree. However, a lot of people believe in god anyway, though they can't prove it, so they don't call themselves agnostic. On the other side there's me, I don't believe in god, but I also know that you can't prove or disprove god's existance, but I don't call myself agnostic because I don't think you should have to disprove god to know there isn't one. There isn't any proof either way, because it's made up. Imaginary. Simple as that.

Answer 7

I think everyone is agnostic whether they think they are or not.

Nobody really knows the absolute truth, so I think that agnosticism is the only "absolute truth."

Even if some other religion truns out to be the "right" path, agnostics are still right in saying we can't know.

Answer 8

There are two types of people in the world:

1) Those who do not know for certain the truth about God, but pretend that they do.
2) Those who do not know for certain the truth about God, and are honest about it.

We only call the latter agnostic, for some reason...

Answer 9

For a Christian, the Bible is the absolute truth. When people say that they don't know with certainty the things of God, but fail to at least read the Bible for themselves in order to compare and contrast what they think from what is actually taught their argument is uninformed.

Answer 10

Even Agnostics need faith in something. That's why we have religions.