for agnostics, are you completely atheists when it comes to?

Question

the religious concept of God, the abrahamic God ?
Are you only open to the possibility that God might exist but it is nothing like the anthropomorphized God that religions make it to be?
What kind of concept of God would you be open to believe in?

Answer 1

yeah, i guess my brain completely convulses at the thought of that benevolent/psychopath type of split personality that fit the range of descriptions that the believers on here buy into.

i would still need to see more evidence than i have just to believe in an intelligent creator.

but, i still TRY to keep my mind open.

Answer 2

I would believe a God existed if s/he answered prayers in a rather personal fashion. However, I've heard of so many terrible tragedies to people who certainly didn't deserve them, I find it hard to believe in an all-seeing, all-powerful God who watches every person and cares.

There might be something out there -- I'm open to that. But I think our options are 1) total bumbler of a God or 2) a God who really couldn't give a damn about the human race. Psycho-God.

I think that "God" is a fiction invented by religious leaders to control people -- sometimes for the common good, but sometimes for the good of the religious leader. A lot of people need the organization and guidance a religious organization can provide, though, and they need that Big Brother God looking down from heaven in order to do the right thing.

I dunno if it's a good thing or not. If it keeps them from cheating on their spouses and beating their children, yay Religion! If it keeps the religious leaders rolling in cash and mistresses, boo Religion!

Answer 3

I am always agnostic. The more specific the claims about the god in question, though, the less likely I find it that the god could exist. About the Abrahamic god there are a lot of specific claims, and thus I find it particularly unlikely.
But because it's a supernatural claim, I don't believe it is capable of being disproved using reason and objective evidence, hence I remain agnostic.

Answer 4

Food for thought a quote by Anthony De Mello

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said,
'We don't know?'
The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God,
Because you KNOW ABOUT God.
The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept.
You miss God because you think you know.
The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable.
All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon.
As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon,
All the idiot sees is the finger'.


Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.
Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.
Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books.
Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.
Believe nothing just because someone else believes it.
Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 5

The modern strict monotheistic detached personal God of modern Judaism, Islam or non-Trinitarian Christianity is remotely possible. Einstein's take on Spinoza's pantheism is more likely, but Occam's razor suggests not as probable as no deity.

Answer 6

I can't know everything in the universe. So yes, Santa Claus, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and God could all exist somewhere I do not know about. But as I have had absolutely no logical proof, I'm not about to start worshipping the Spaghetti Monster or any 'Gods.'

Answer 7

I'm an Agnostic who used to be an athiest and a christian.