because doesnt agnostic mean your skeptical of your religion..
2007-02-14 07:51:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm agnostic. I don't. It's Synagouge that I don't attend though....not Church. Even if I were to become religious, it would be as a Jew.
2007-02-14 07:55:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Agnostic" comes from the Greek term "gnosis", meaning "knowledge". With the prefix -a, an agnostic is literally a person without knowledge. Conventionally, an agnostic is someone who is unsure of whether or not G/god(s) exist. This simple fact does not describe an entire philosophy or behavior, and there is no defining or encompassing rulebook for agnostics. Some agnostics simply have doubts, but feel that it's better to live a religious lifestyle. Some sample and practice several religions at the same time. Others (like myself) believe that religion is basically a bogus pursuit, but that the existence of G/god(s) cannot be systematically disproven. A great number of agnostics believe as they do out of apathy. They simply don't care.
Basically, there are all sorts of different types of agnostics. I don't have any statistics in front of me, but I'd be willing to bet that most of us don't go to church on a regular basis. (I haven't been in a church in years.) On the other hand, I have agnostic friends who attend and take part in church services on a regular basis.
2007-02-14 16:07:01 · answer #2 · answered by marbledog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
agnostic means that you don't believe either way, agnostic doesn't mean that your skeptical of "your" religion, it means your skeptical "of" religion in general. Therefor we don't go to church because we don't have one.
2007-02-14 17:17:24 · answer #3 · answered by static_nerdling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most agnostics do not think that any religion has it right. They only think that the evidence makes it impossible to tell rather their is a god or not. That doesn't necessarily mean your god.
2007-02-14 15:57:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. Agnostic means that the existence of YHVH cannot be proven or disproven. If you understand "science" to be what we mean by proof, then the comment is not so much about YHVH's existence, as the appropriateness of the tool science.
2007-02-14 15:56:26 · answer #5 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could still go, you just wouldn't neccessarily believe everything you heard there (what a novel idea!) agnostics believe it is impossible to know most things about the supernatural, and by extension that it's weird to pretend to know them the way that most religions do.
2007-02-14 15:58:16 · answer #6 · answered by ajj085 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
agnostics don't go to church at least i don't anyway agnosticism deals with the concept that the existence or nonexistence of a higher power aka god is unknowable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
http://www.religioustolerance.org/agnostic.htm
2007-02-14 15:56:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that you don't think it's possible to PROVE that god exists or doesn't exist.
I have known people who claimed to be agnostic christians. For instance "I don't think it's possible to prove that god exists, but I choose to believe."
((Pssst, I think the whole thing is largely a game of semantics))
2007-02-14 15:55:58 · answer #8 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could mean either. It depends on the individual.
2007-02-14 15:59:33 · answer #9 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesnt mean either
it means you believe that you cannot know whether god exists or not.
u cant prove he exists, you cant prove he doesnt exist.
2007-02-14 15:55:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋