If there were no atheists and no theists where would that leave the agnostic?

Question

Would they be lost in an eternally indecisive and grey nether world, what must it be like to be a lone agnostic, a fence dweller alone with nothing at all either side of him/her.
Without theists there would be no need for atheists, would the agnostic simply disappear too?

Answer 1

Definitely not! Agnosticism is a question of knowledge, not belief. There will be agnostics as long as people admit to not knowing something when they don't know it.

Answer 2

In answer to your final question, you are mistaking people for their philosophical position. You don't cease to be a person simply because a theist, or atheist or agnostic position you might have held no longer exists. Has someone told you you cease to exist if you're not a Christian? That's really bizarre, and, I suggest, so intellectally dishonest to be abusive.

Could I repectfully suggest you get a life, hold whatever beliefs make sense to you, but don't confuse the two?

Answer 3

You are going to shoot them all, or they are all going to be converted into some other category?
Presumably agnosticism, so there wiil be a lot of them!

Agnosticism can be either a reasoned, thoughtful position or a lazy cop-out. (rather like the "don't knows" in polls: ONE possibility is that they know the question is difficult and balanced).

And of course if you translate "agnostic" from classical Greek to classical Latin, you get "ignoramus." That might drop the count of people willing to so self proclaim, by a few at least.

Answer 4

We are inherently agnostic. It is our default setting. It only changes when we are brainwashed into a particular belief in god, or we become educated enough to dismiss god as a viable possibility. So. in answer to your question, the agnostic would not be affected.

Answer 5

He's gonna fall off the fence, isn't he? Poor thing is gonna have to make a stand for or against something, I guess.

Answer 6

have you read 'The Giver?' Something like that.