Sorry about using the PC-speak!
I mean, maybe if there are other types of IQ, maybe there is a spiritual IQ too and agnostics just have a low spiritual IQ?
If so, what kind of special assistance should disability services give agnostics to help them get through seminary school?
2006-07-20 11:34:16 · 10 answers · asked by Cheshire Cat 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ah... another one of those 'Straw Man Fallacy' questions. I just love logical fallacies.
Spiritualism does not (necessarily) have a danged thing to do with religion... it has to do with self-realization.
2006-07-20 11:51:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think agnostics just don't know what they believe yet, and I see nothing wrong with that. I don't know everything and admit I don't know everything. Too many people think they have and/or have to have all the answers when they don't. Agnostics just admit that they don't know yet, or are uncertain. Good for them for having the logic and maturity to say that some things don't make sense and that they will not believe that something is true just because they want it to be, which is something I find VERY often in the religious community.
Even if it WAS a "challenge", I do not see why seminaries should give some kind of disability service to an agnostic. That doesn't even make any sense. They are smart enough to learn the material presented to them in school, so what kind of services are you even talking about?? Counseling??????
2006-07-20 19:09:28 · answer #2 · answered by mountain_laurel1183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say that being an agnostic is being "spiritually challenged", although some agnostics may be.
Not accepting an answer because it is not good enough, is not stupidity or ignorance. I mean that is what some religious people are doing after all, when they don't think science can answer questions about God, and that God can only be understood through faith (blind acceptance rather then evidence of fact).
2006-07-20 18:59:03 · answer #3 · answered by humean9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you worship Zeus and Hera? Is it because you're spiritually challenged?
Let's give the agnostics some credit. It's not because they're "stubborn" (I've seen so many Christians write that, and it's baloney) or "afraid to face hell."
The reasons agnostics are likely to give for not believing in your god are likely very similar to those you'd give for not believing in and worshipping the gods of Olympus.
2006-07-20 19:01:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, define "agnostic". Gnostics believe that all flesh is evil. Only the spirit is good. Therefore, all fleshly desire (including hunger and thirst, as well as sex) is sin. The body is to be denied, not enjoyed. And, since Jesus was all "good", he could not be any "flesh". Therefore Christ didn't really live and die as a man.
An Agnostic denies all that crap. I'm agnostic. Am I spiritually challenged?
2006-07-20 18:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by antirion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are the spiritual just atheistically challenged?
2006-07-20 18:38:40 · answer #6 · answered by Sleepy Shroom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They are just lazy or too prideful to want to think of there being a God they have to answer to.
2006-07-20 18:39:42 · answer #7 · answered by oremus_fratres 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The who and the what now?
2006-07-20 18:57:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You funny!
2006-07-20 18:38:08 · answer #9 · answered by iamchadzdad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-20 18:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋