why can't these people take one stand ... I mean either be atheists or just believe in god ... why in between and belong no where ... what actually cause this to happen ? ... and how could it be resolved by turning that person into a believer or an atheist !
2007-03-16 22:18:00 · 11 answers · asked by Shashiz 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why can't things just be black or white? Who needs gray anyway?
Agnosticism is merely acknowledging that you don't know and choose not to decide one way or the other. They don't see religion as a necessary part of their existence and often feel that it unecessarily inhibits their chosen lifetyle.
2007-03-16 22:30:08 · answer #1 · answered by Rainman 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They just think we're incapable of knowing so can't make a claim either way. It still follows that without a positive assertion of god the default position is atheism. There's soft atheism "I don't believe there is a god" and hard atheism "I believe there is no god". I believe agnostics fall into the former. I'm a hard atheist but I'm also a scientist so even I don't discount the minute possibility that I could be wrong. That probability however is not enough to begin a life of slavery. There's the possibility that when i walk out my front door gravity will stop working and i'll float off into space but I still leave the house.
2007-03-16 22:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love how we are considered fence sitters.
I have a position. It is that I cannot know that which cannot be known.
I am agnostic because I can no more believe in god than I can believe there is no god. I'm inclined to think there isn't but I don't see how I can claim to know that there isn't or is when I can't believe I have the ability to know.
From where I stand I see atheists and theists as confusing belief with knowledge and philosophy with theology when they insist agnostics are "in between," or whatever.
I do not believe in any religious theory, even those that claim there is no god, higher power, afterlife, etc... because I do not believe we can ever know, prove, or disprove those theories. For me there is nothing there to believe in, either way. It just doesn't make sense to me.
I think people get all turned in knots about agnostics because they need us to be either on their side or on the opposing team. We're Switzerland (and if you're Swiss, please understand I do think you got a good thing going there in so many ways! I mean no insult). Atheists and theists want us to take side because they think that if we don't believe in a god or don't believe that there is no such thing then we don't believe in anything. It also, of course, assumes we don't believe in a god or do believe in a god. Just because we don't claim knowledge doesn't mean we don't believe. And just because we don't believe in a religion, god, or whatever, does not mean we don't have beliefs.
We just think about it all differently. You can fear it, hate it, ignore it, love it, respect it, or accept it. The choice is yours.
2007-03-17 20:49:16 · answer #3 · answered by ophelliaz 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey I'm agnostic... well I was I have decided to revert to Christianity and become catholic. The reason I became agnostic was the church I was raised in was totally messed and I just didn't accept them as true followers of Jesus. I didn't go atheist because I still knew there was a God, and I doubted the bible until my friend took me on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France where I think God was calling me back to Christianity. I studied Catholicism for 3 years then discovered that the propaganda my parents fed me as a baptist kid was all lies. Now I firmly believe The catholic church is the church that was started by Jesus and I'm going to start taking RCIA classes next year.
2007-03-16 22:29:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Agnostic is just another term for undecided. If you truly don't believe one way or the other you are an atheist. But if you're stradling the fence you're an agnostic. However, if you're agnostic you might as well be atheist because God said you are either for me or against me.
2007-03-16 22:38:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do people have to make their minds up about things we can't make up our minds up about? If you look at the facts, there is still no other reason for the existence of a god other than to explain and give reason to the universe and life. Our minds and developments are just too small to be able to see or comprehend the big picture. It's like we swim in a big bowl of transparent and expanding soup, but we can only see the range of a pea. We don't know how big the bowls is, so we don't even know where we in fact are in the bowl. We only know we are there.
2007-03-16 23:40:34 · answer #6 · answered by Caveman 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because there has not been enough proofin thier feeble minds to choose a direct path.
I say choose God. I'd rather spend my entire life believing in something that "could be" (The Truth)
than not believing and realizing i could have prevented it.
Yay God
Boo Satan
2007-03-16 22:26:11 · answer #7 · answered by jenso_41 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hey...coz there is no hard core proof either way.....we r seeking the truth.
2007-03-16 23:35:50 · answer #8 · answered by danny's mom 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ignorance
2007-03-17 03:46:49 · answer #9 · answered by jennainhiding 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
craving
2007-03-16 22:26:57 · answer #10 · answered by chi 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋