2007-01-04 13:43:40 · 20 answers · asked by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
WOW. There are a lot of COMPLETELY wrong answers to this question.
Agnosticism is unique because it doesn't involve a "belief" at all. It is merely the acceptance that humans simply do not know whether god exists.
An agnostic person can still be a believer in deity. I personally am one such person. I believe in god, but acknowledge that I don't "know" god exists - nor does anyone else - because the proof in either direction is insufficient and perhaps even impossible to formulate.
2007-01-04 13:59:33 · answer #1 · answered by Huddy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Agnostic theists can believe in any religion.
Agnostic atheists disbelieve in all of them.
Or... in another sense... one could be an agnostic atheist to particular theistic religions and a gnostic atheist to others and still even yet be a theist (agnostic or gnostic) in one of them.
All the people above me saying all agnostics believe in god - those are actually called agnostic theists...
or believe it is impossible to know - that's agnosticism believing 50% probability for theism and atheism. #4 on Richard Dawkins' scale: "Exactly 50 per cent. Completely impartial agnostic. 'God's existence and non-existence are exactly quiprobable.'"
2007-01-04 21:48:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A true agnostic believes that God is not a concept that man can truly understand and lacking any physical evidence of existence,
it is a topic best left to the Cosmos
2007-01-04 21:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Agnostics believe that it's rather arrogant and presumptuous for simple humans to define or create God.
Wasn't it originally supposed to be the other way around?
2007-01-04 21:50:30 · answer #4 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The closest thing to define what I believe is probably Agnostic. I believe in god/gods, karma, three-fold, magick, anything is possible etc.. I don't worship and I'm very philosophical.
2007-01-04 21:53:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of them believe that the apostrophe should not be used in the plural.
An agnostic is someone who is not entirely convinced of God's existence, and yet not entirely convinced of God's non-existence.
2007-01-04 21:47:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They don't believe in God? That's athiest...
A = not. Gnostic = knowing. Not knowing.
An agnostic doesn't know whether God exists or not. They believe in something, not necesarily a "god." Sometimes they don't believe at all. I guess it all depends on their mood?
2007-01-04 21:51:02 · answer #7 · answered by be_careful_william 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That a diety exists but doesn't fit nicely into one of the religious categories.
OR that a diety exists but the agnostic person doesn't know WHICH diety/religion is the one they belong too.
2007-01-04 21:49:45 · answer #8 · answered by kerrisonr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They believe there is someone up there, but not through any form of religion or a specific god
2007-01-04 21:47:24 · answer #9 · answered by Nostromo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think so, they believe, it´s not possible to understand god, at least from a rational point of view. and that´s perfectly right. god is not logical. enjoy! but they also refuse, that one can understand god by other than logical means. that´s very, very poor. poorness, yes. revelation is also denied.
2007-01-04 21:49:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋