Do the Agnostics cover everything between a skeptical atheist and a skeptical Christian?

Question

Or anyone else that's skeptical of thier religion.

Answer 1

shades of grey, man

Answer 2

Ignoring the actuality that i'm agnostic and that i basically have been given right into a controversy with a diest like, 2 days in the past... Christians, it is basically petty interpretations of a similar rattling concern. they are all arguing a similar words in a similar text fabric (nicely, the Catholics have six greater books of the bible than the protestants, yet you get my element). there is sufficient difference between the different diverse perception systems that arguing could be fruitless, and because we are actually not drawn to changing one yet another...the only different concern to do is a.] be acquaintances or b.] have a mature talk over a drink or 2. except you're chatting with an *******. you come across those in each and every perception equipment.

Answer 3

Most agnostics believe there might be some higher power as opposed to atheists. Many question or are skeptical of organized religions. Many are not sure about religion but will have a little benefit of doubt. Others simply don't care about religion.

Answer 4

There are a lot of flavors of agnosticism. I personally consider myself an atheist agnostic, because although I tend to doubt the existence of any sort of god, at least as conceived of in the traditional western sense, I also believe it is impossible to truly know one way or the other. It's a philosophical position on the inablility to know the answer, at least for me. Wikipedia has a nice page on agnositicism and it's various incarnations. And yes, a Christian who at the same time admits that there is no way to prove their faith and who thinks they could be wrong would qualify as an agnositic in my book.

Answer 5

I feel many Buddhists qualify as agnostic. But there, it's not a matter of being skeptical of their religion. Rather, their agnosticism is a practice of doubting any reliance on mere concepts, and instead going for direct experience.

In other words, with Buddhist agnosticism, it's not about beliefs, it's about practices. They don't want to just speculate, and they certainly don't want to "decide" what is true. They want to participate in truth, they want to "taste" truth, they want to realize what is true experienitally ... through opening their minds and their hearts.

And in their practice, they come to understand that ultimately our most profound realizations are not a matter of ideas or concepts. Instead, our most profound lived realizations are a matter of something too basic, too fundamental, and too simple for words. At that fundamental, simple level, it's not about belief, but about knowing ... and that knowing is of a kind that is more "honest" than an intellectual concept.

ADDED: Actually, many contemplative currents within even theistic spiritual tradtions entail a kind of agnostic stance, letting go of all we can think in order to come to rest in something more original than conceptual thought. In the Christian case, for instance, this is sometimes called "Unknowing." And it tickles my mind that in the original Middle English of the book, The Cloud of Unknowing, the word "concept" was spelled ...

C-O-N-C-E-I-T.

I suspect at a fundamental level, our propensity to relate to the universe through creating "conceited" beliefs is the underlying reason for traditional criticisms of "idolatry". To me, idolatry is when we make a mere idea (an _eidolon_, an appearance) into a dogmatic fixation.

This is also why, as an "agnostic," I am fond of saying that if you take religious language literally, you are not taking it seriously enough.
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Answer 6

That's what I would call it.

Lifetime agnostics bother me. It shouldn't take forever to decide which one is true. I think it is more of a transitional period. Usually from Christianity to Atheism, but not always.

Answer 7

i thought agnostics were people who were just unsure if they belive in God or not or that they were people who are still thinking about it.

skeptical atheist an skeptical chriatians are just atheiest.,

have a nice day my dear friend :o)

Answer 8

One could argue that agnosticism is about strength of faith (and favoring evidence) and not about the nature of faith. It goes beyond skepticism and doubt and directly to the unknowabilty itself.

Answer 9

If they don't have Jesus Christ as there lord and savior in faith, then they don't have the truth and thats all that matters "The truth".

God Bless

Answer 10

Actually I believe they doubt real beliefs as well.