Let me ask the agnostics a question:?

Question

What is it that is keeping you from deciding what you believe in?

Bigm:
I have searched out my faith. I went two years being agnostic. I went to classes to research other religions. I found Christianity as being truth.

Duck:
Tell me, what evidence do you have against such things happening?

Answer 1

"religion" will allways scew you up. what you need is a personal RELATIONSHIP with your creator.

Answer 2

It's not about just not picking a religion or deciding what to believe in. I believe in a higher power, and I believe that human beings are not capable of having all the answers. No religion or faith is the one way or the right way.

I have decided what I believe in 100%. It's that I believe in something, but know that my human mind could never truly understand what that higher power is.

Answer 3

You are foolish to think that this is a matter of 'deciding'. Believers believe on the basis of 'faith'... wishful thinking... magical thinking. Rational people don't 'believe'... they rely on 'knowledge'... and to validate potential knowledge, they require evidence. The simple fact is that there is no compelling evidence that would convince a rational person that the idea of a 'god' is factual... and all of the existing evidence supports the conclusion that the dogmatic beliefs of the cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) are nothing more than the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders.

Tell me, please... what objective evidence do you have to support the following:

*  a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
*  solid 'firmmament' structure (the sky) seperating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
*  talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys
* shepherd staff turning into an asp
*  demons chased out of people and into pigs
*  friendly spirits
*  evil spirits
*  walking on water
*  multiplying loaves and fishes
*  food falling from the sky
* conception by a ghost
*  people raising from the dead
*  stopping the sun in its tracks
*  parting seas
*  people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
*  world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
*  creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
*  magical tree of knowledge
*  god speaking from a burning bush
*  ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.

Answer 4

I think the point, for me, is that we don't know and we don't need to know.

We don't need any religion to be good people. We can do the right thing without following some prescribed notions about a religion.

There are good parts in many religions. Why try to pick one when the point is to contribute, not to worship?

I guess that is what I believe in, so I have decided.

Answer 5

It doesnt mean that they are not decided, it means that they just dont believe in god. I am supposedly Roman Catholic, and if I really believed in all of what they say, everyone in the world who doesnt go to confession is going to hell. If what I was taught to believe really is right, then I am going to hell, because I dont really think that I believe in the religion. I believe that there is a god, but i just dont think that the teachings of Catholosism are correct.

Answer 6

Let me ask you a question religious one: Why don't you question your faith/belief? I am agnostic because I am allowed to be curious and actually LEARN new things. It doesn't keep me from what I believe in at all...Check out WWW.UUA.ORG for what I believe in. PEACE!

Answer 7

As a former agnostic and current atheist, I can say for me it was hard because for 30 years I had christianity rammed down my throat at home, in church, and in school. It's hard to undo 30 years of programming and brainwashing and it took time for me to get from christian to atheist.

Answer 8

if something is really true and pure,there is no hypocrisy,no loose ends,and an overall feeling of goodness,and all questions can be answered without any form of doubt,until then,there is nothing to believe in.

Answer 9

Because I believe in the real world, in facts, not in fairy tales. I believe in evidence, not blind faith.

Answer 10

Because no religion is completly true, humans added what they wanted to each religion.

Answer 11

Proof, evidence. That is what I believe in, and neither side can offer it.