Ignostics, do people really understand what it means, and what do religious people think of them?

Question

Just wondering what religious people think of ignostics, i know what they think of atheists and agnostics. But surely ignostic people must offer them a new perspective to argue their outdated beliefs against.

Hey, guy who answered second, IGNOSTIC!!! Do people not actually read questions here sometimes???

Oh and first guy, look it up on the net, id prefer not to write a biased definition and risk getting screamed at for not explaining it properly

Answer 1

Had to look it up. An Ignostic (not to be confused with Agnostic) is someone who ignores the concept of God, and believes that tradition is what is important about religion. I'm not Christian, so I can't exactly answer your question. But my opinion is that most of what is wrong about religion is tradition, particularly the outdated ones.

Answer 2

ag·nos·tic (g-nstk) KEY

NOUN:

One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
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An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist. The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning "without, not," as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gnsis, "knowledge," which was used by early Christian writers to mean "higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things"; hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as "Gnostics" a group of his fellow intellectuals"ists," as he called themwho had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a "man without a rag of a label to cover himself with," Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.

Answer 3

I've heard of it before. I read a definition once. But I can't quite recall. Maybe you could remind me?