Can someone explain to me what a agnostic is? Or what a pagan is?

Question

I have heard these terms, I just don't know exactly what they mean. I kinda have an idea but...

Answer 1

Paganism, in a nutshell is nature worship.

Agnostics don't know. In other words, neither Creationism or Evolution can be proven or disproven, so we dunno what to believe in.

Answer 2

pagan I dont know......but Agnostic I am so here's how I will explain......I dont believe in God as defined any man or religion. Not to say there is not a higher power or supreme being or whatever one decides to label it. There may very well be something else out there that put us here. I dont know the answer and personally do not care to search for the answer. I am here, I am now. That is all that is important. I personally believe that we were put here by something other than chance, I just don't think I have the ability to discover who or what that was. And I refuse to believe in a God that exists ONLY through the faith of man. I wont go into a diatribe here, I just dont accept it. I have no faith in things unseen, I do not doubt their existence!

Answer 3

If the first letter of a word is an "a" , it typically means "without". Gnosis means knowledge. So agnostic means someone who doesn't know if there is a God or not. Meaning they concede that we as human beings do not have enough facts to either believe in God or not to (like atheist).

I am an agnostic, since being a scientist, it is difficult for me to believe in something without any proof, and at the same time I am not stupid enough or narrow minded enough to realize that there is a LOT we still do not know!

Pagan refers to the native religion of a people before any of the religions that were established in the years ca. 2000 BC to about 700AD (approximately from the Zorastrianism, Hinduism, Budhism to Judaism, Christainity and Islam). Typcially these religions revered nature and/or animal/plant life.

Answer 4

Agnostic's don't know what to believe in and I'm not real sure about Pagans, it's kind of like witchcraft but not exactly.

I'm more of a Gnostic myself meaning I believe in God and that he exists within me, the Gnostic religion was destroyed a long time ago.

The person below me is describing an Atheist, they believe in no god but in evolution and we are descended from apes, Agnostics aren't much different but they are more open minded and haven't made up their minds yet.

Answer 5

An agnostic does not deny the existence of God but holds that one cannot know for certain whether God exists. The word is from the prefix a–, meaning “without, not,” as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic, which relates to the Greek word gnsis, or knowledge (mostly of spiritual things).

A pagan is someone who is not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish. They claim to believe in no religion and are also called heathens.

Answer 6

Agnostics do not believe the existence of God can be proved. They do not feel the need to define or recognize a God or gods. Pagans are usually people that follow either polytheistic or nature-worshiping religions.

Answer 7

An agnostic is a person who is ambivalent about the existence of God. An agnostic maintains that the existence of God cannot be proven philosophically. A pagan is a person who believes in the existence of a false god like Zeus, Jupiter or Isis.

Answer 8

Pagans worship the Earth! Ancestors, Sky, Elements (fire, wind, water) and Nature all around us...the oldest spirituality of human beings. dont be confused by chinsy modern commercializations of what is actually authentic pagan.
Agnostics basically admit that they dont know. They do not believe a divine power is real OR is not real, they simply do not have a particular construct of God that they follow, though they still may have faith in their own personal ways.

Answer 9

Here're some excerpts from Wikipedia that may help:

Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning "without" and gnosis, "knowledge", translating to unknowable) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding metaphysics, afterlife or the existence of God, god(s), or deities — is unknown or (possibly) inherently unknowable. Some agnostics take a stronger view that the concept of a deity is incoherent, thus meaningless and irrelevant to life. The term is used to describe those who are unconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of deities as well as about other matters of religion. Early Christian church leaders used the Greek word gnosis (knowledge) to describe "spiritual knowledge". "Agnostic" was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 to describe his philosophy. Agnosticism is not to be confused with religious views opposing the doctrine of gnosis and Gnosticism— these are religious concepts that are not generally related to agnosticism.

Agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge or, alternatively, that while certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves some form of skepticism. Demographic research services[1] may use combinations of agnostic, atheist, and secular to describe non-religious people.

Agnostics are normally listed alongside categories such as atheist and non-religious, although this may be misleading. For example, prominent agnostics such as Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Michelle Bachelet have been notably Christian in their outlook.


Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller" or "civilian") is a term which, from a western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions. The term can be defined broadly, to encompass many or most of the faith traditions outside the Abrahamic monotheistic group of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This group may include the Dharmic religions, which may be interpreted to incorporate pagan characteristics like nature-worship, polytheism and reverence of female deities, and are thus diametrically opposite to the Abrahamic faiths. "Pagan" is the usual translation of the Islamic term mushrik, which refers to 'one who worships something other than The God of Abraham'. Ethnologists avoid the term "paganism," with its uncertain and varied meanings, in referring to traditional or historic faiths, preferring more precise categories such as shamanism, polytheism or animism. The term is also used to describe earth-based Native American religions and mythologies, though few Native Americans call themselves or their cultures "pagan". Historically, the term "pagan" has usually had pejorative connotations among westerners, comparable to heathen, infidel and kafir (كافر) in Islam. In modern times, though, the words "pagan" or "paganism" have become widely and openly used by some practitioners of certain spiritual paths outside the Abrahamic and Dharmic religious mainstream to describe their beliefs, practices, and organized movements.

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Answer 10

I don't know what they mean either, and I have asked one to explain their beliefs to me, and they never explain. Good luck finding out.

Answer 11

In a small sentence, person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God.