What can be the major reasons for someone, to turn in to an Agnostic??

Question

"Heart has its reason that reason knows nothing of"

So, the reason of stop believing on God, is fair on some point?? Is that a rebellious Action? An outrage agaisnt God's Ways? A result of hopelessness?

or....

Someone becomes an agnostic besides all these reasons, and select this way of living in all his/her senses, without any reason of hoplessness........?

Answer 1

Well actually reading the bible helped a lot. The crazy stuff in the old testament, laws about women being unclean and so on. Also the suffering of children.

I saw a documentary about little children 4yrs + abandoned, living on the streets, addicted to glue and being beaten and having their eyes poked out by the police. That pretty much put the nail in the coffin of my beleif.

I have studied the issue and longed to beleive, but my common sense finds more answers in looking at the natural world.

Answer 2

I don't know that one "turns into an agnostic". If a child is raised in an intellectual environment, where reasoning and proof are important, that kid will grow up to expect proof of all sorts of things... proofs are common in geometry, for example, and proofs are required in scientific experiments... "Does this medication work against this disease or doesn't it?---How can we prove it?" might be his science project.

In that kind of an environment, kids learn how to think, not what to think.

In religion, people are taught to believe something as true, on blind faith.... "Ye Must Have Faith". But all the bible stories are silly fairy tales.....so for this bunch of people these stories would make no sense, (people walking on water, people dead then coming to life, Noah crowding all critters on a boat --- it would have had to have been the size of Delaware, so religion is not too much a part of their lives... They do not sit in fear of burning forever in hell, or if they will go to heaven.... it just isn't important.

So to answer your question, people who are atheist or agnostic just don't find religion of any value... science makes sense, blind faith does not. It's not rebellion, is just reasonable.

Answer 3

I'm an Agnostic because logic tells me that there are major flaws in religion. What do you do when something is defective? You dump it. That's what I did...but I also do not feel that science holds the answer to everything...there are unexplainable events that occur everywhere which science cannot explain. I don't know really what to believe..so I choose to stay in the middle ground and watch both sides until I get more answers.

Answer 4

Agnostic = Greek meaning "not knowing" as opposed to gnostic = "knowing". That is all agnostic means. It means you don't know. Are UFOs alien spaceships? We don't know. Is there a God? We don't know that either. Regarding the supernatural, the divine, etc., we are all "agnostic" whether we like it or not. It is not logical (or necessarily ethical or moral) to believe in the existence of something just because there is no definitive proof that it does not exist. Does that explain agnosticism to you?

Answer 5

People are dropping the churches, because, among other things, like in Jesus' day the religions failed to represent God, made an idol of the word, failed to empower people and didn't keep up with the times actually rejecting the truth, the owner that brought them in.

Answer 6

i am agnostic. I don't believe that I'm hopeless. Everybody has their own faith, and that helps them live the life that's best for them. As long as I'm living the way my heart tells me (wow....i know that sounded corny ^^' hah) I'm happy. It's not like I'm killing anyone or breaking any laws. I just find it easier to live the believing in myself then asking someone else.

Answer 7

I am agnostic deist. I think there is a God, and He is NOT that biblical monster.

Religion is a main selling point of agnosticism and atheism. Then you add the religious fanatics and most of us want out as fast as possible.

Answer 8

who says they're acting out against God? are you acting out against Zeus by not believing in him? stop thinking your way is the only way. other religions have just as much faith as you. It has nothing to do with hopelessness, it has to do with realizing that we have no way of knowing where we came from. you can't prove either way, so you live a good life with good morals and don't just follow one religion's book because the book says it is right.

Answer 9

People all believe different things about religion and agnosticism. I'm telling you here what -I- think. Others may disagree.

I think you have a responsibility to yourself to believe whatever seems reasonable to you. And that you shouldn't believe something just because someone else tells you you're supposed to believe it.

God made us in his image. To me this means that he made us with creativity and imagination, and also with what you might call 'critical thinking skills', to decide for ourselves what seems believable. I think he would rather we think about things for ourselves than simply accept beliefs from others without thinking about them too much.

To me, that's what agnosticism is. It's simply the intellectual honesty to say 'I really don't know if that's true'. And I don't think anyone really does know. God doesn't come down and tell us stuff--he leaves that up to us. Christians believe he gave us the Bible to explain all this stuff, but even people who claim to believe the Bible literally word-for-word disagree on interpretation.

If you have a 'personal' relationship with God, that means it's -personal-! It's between you and God! So read the Bible on your own and think about it for yourself. Listen to what other people say--because you can learn a lot from them!--but as Paul said: 'Test everything and hold fast to that which is good.'

If you don't -know- about something, feel free to admit to yourself that you don't know. God will understand! Even if you don't believe in God, you have a lot of company! God certainly wouldn't want you to -pretend- to believe in him, would he? I think he'd want you to be honest. I think he'd want you to respect the beliefs of others and for them to respect YOUR beliefs.

Answer 10

It is the discontentment of organized religion. It comes from the thought that mankind uses organized religion as a way to control people and to gain power. This has occurred many times in history and is still occurring today. What they don't understand is that man is imperfect in his ways.