Agnositcs: Why are you agnostic?

Question

typo, sorry

Answer 1

Sorry, I answered a later question of yours before reading the earlier questions. So let me begin with an addendum to that question now that I know what you were after. There is at least one group that considers itself not to be theists or atheists or agnostics. It's the logical positivists. They assert, I gather, that the statement that there's a God is not a statement of fact. It's like a statement that red is better than blue or seeing a surprising thing and yelling "Gadzooks." Logically speaking, they say, it's just a non factual statement and tells us no facts about reality and thus has no truth value. So they don't believe in any gods and say that to assert that there isn't a god or that there might be a god is to say that the statement "God exists" or "God does not exist" has some factual meaning which, they assert, isn't the case.

That being said, I'm both an agnostic and an atheist. I'm an atheist because I don't believe in any gods. Why? The same answer most atheists give- I see no reason why they must exist and I see insufficient evidence that they do exist. So I don't believe in any.

I'm also an agnostic. Why? Traditionally (going back here to T. H. Huxley who originated the word) agnostics think we can be certain enough about some things to say that we know they are true or false. The sort of evidence we'll accept to reach this conclusion is objective, empirical evidence. We haven't seen enough of that to say that gods do exist or that they don't with certainty. So we don't claim to know that which we don't have sufficient evidence to know.

When I'm stressing my lack of belief in any gods I call myself an atheist. When I'm stressing what sort of evidence I'd accept and that I don't see either position sufficiently proved yet I call myself an agnostic. Agnostic differentiates me from the strong atheists who say they know there's no god.
I'm not a logical positivist. I think that asserting there's a god who created the universe and morality and has laid down laws for us to follow, etc. etc. does make a factual assertion. We may never be able to say whether the statement's true or false but I think it's just a philisophical slight of hand to dismiss the question as meaningless.

Answer 2

Because there are a great number of different religions out there that all says that their religion is only right and true way...which means, someone has it wrong.
I associate myself as being Agnostic because I don't follow any religion, but I also don't close off my mind and say "there is no God."
To simply sum it all up, I have found no proof to the existence of a God, but I also haven't found anything that disproves a God exists. I do good in life because I enjoy doing it, and I think that's what ultimately matters, regardless of what else is out there or what isn't out there.

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Answer 3

Because analysis of existing faith beliefs tells us that they are all lacking in one aspect or another. We can't find a belief system that will absolutely convince us. And even our own analysis of things that is, that are or could ever be always leads to a dead end. So instead of lying to the world and to ourselves by saying that we have found the Truth, we would rather admit our weakness that we don't know and chances are we may never know.

Answer 4

Because I was raised Christian and, while I have my doubts and questions, I'm still sure I believe in some kind of higher power. I just have to figure out what I really believe. So, I lean towards the believing side of agnosticism.

Answer 5

Because I don't believe anyone's found the correct answer to why we're here and what' exactly, created us. I don't even thing we're really supposed to know.

Answer 6

I won't answer this question until the typo is fixed, not just explained away.

Answer 7

Because of an absence of convincing evidence.

Answer 8

Because reason tells me there is no God, but if there is a God then he/she can do an end run around reason.