How could you bash sweet, little agnostics?

Question

I'm an agnostic because I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS A GOD! We're not fence-sitters or chickens who are afraid to say we believe or don't! There's nothing wrong with having the balls to say I don't know if there's a God!

Besides Christians, Muslims & other theists alike, shouldn't bash us but should be drooling over agnostics! You might be able to convert us! But probably not.

I'm a free-thinker. I've studied many other religions and found none that quite "do it" for me. Especially the religions with the stories that were originally written for uneducated goat shepherds, basket-weavers and brick-makers. Those tales just so,o,o,o DO NOT apply to the 21st century human anymore!

I've even studied a lot of philosophy. Man, does THAT ever screw with your head! LOL

But, to say we are non-committal! That's harsh. We just don't believe in only "black or white." Nothin' wrong with a little gray area! It's like a foot in the door of your mind.

What say you?

Answer 1

id say you are more scientific than either believers or non believers. you cannot prove scientifically that god exists, but cannot prove that it doesnt exist. I say good job

Answer 2

I have an issue with Clint's post. I am agnostic because I don't know if there is a God, so I WON'T say there is or there isn't. I ALSO don't know if there are faeries, but I like the idea of them so I'm reserving judgement on them, UFO's, angels, ghosts and other unexplained phenomenon that interests the stuffings outa me!

I do NOT believe in the flying spaghetti monster. But beyond being an FSM atheist, the rest of the stuff I am agnostic about.
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:D
Cheers Moose!
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Answer 3

every atheist starts off agnostic...

it just takes time for people to realize that a god cannot exist.

if you are a free-thinker, use your brain. think about existance. the fact that we are here. and that if god exists, where would he have come from? What is more plausible: an infinite expanding universe or an infinite expanding universe with an all knowing and incredibly powerful being having no creator and having 'allways been' or, 'created himself' yet these people who say this mock the big-bang theory by saying, what created it? how can something create itself? time will show.

no one can bash atheism. the government revolves around freedoms and the school system teaches truth.

Answer 4

Thank you, that's what I say!

I'm Agnostic too, and I feel the same. I'm not trying to avoid picking a side or anything, I'm just trying to find my own answers instead of going with the herd. And I'm not sure if any religion is right, or if maybe they all have truth to them, or maybe none of them are right.

And I'm tired of insults from people that have no clue what an Agnostic is, but just have to attack anyway because we're not "them".

Answer 5

This is what i have, as an atheist, against "agnosticism".
It doesn't make sense. I'm an atheist but I can't disprove god. I'm perfectly aware of that but I think in order to have to "disprove" something you need evidence in the first place. So the question of god comes up right alongside the tooth fairie and the giant spaghetti monster in the sky. I don't believe in it because theres no proof. I don't call myself an agnostic towards the tooth fairie. I just don't believe there is one because there is argument against the evidence for it. Again I don't KNOW if theres a god but why believe in him without evidence?
But I still call myself an atheist.

Answer 6

Atheists who call agnostics fence-sitters have likely not arrived to their atheism through study. Intellectuals, who are atheist or agnostic, arrive to that point largely because they come to a place where they realize that there are very few, if any, absolutes.

If you accuse Agnostics of "fence sitting" you still have the "us against them" religious mentality...you merely play contrarian.

Answer 7

No one KNOWS whether or not God exists. So we are all agnostics of a sort.
If you live as if God exists, you are a theist agnostic.
If you live as if God does not exist, you are an atheistic agnostic.

"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
----Emerson

Answer 8

well i too am agnostic, not because i dont beleive, i just think the only way to find out is to die and find out for yourself, and since i dont plan on doing that any time soon im guessing unless god comes to earth im going to remain agnostic

basically i think if god exists thats great but if he doesnt thats ok too, either way its not going to change the fact that i see myself as a good person and i try to avoid hurting people as much as possible

Answer 9

"But, to say we are non-committal! That's harsh. We just don't believe in only "black or white." Nothin' wrong with a little gray area! It's like a foot in the door of your mind."

When there are two sides to a debate, and you do not wish to agree with either, that is being non-committal. It's not an insult, it is the truth. :)

** Online Etymology Dictionary **
non-committal (adj.)
"characterized by refusal to commit oneself,"

Would it not be accurate to say that you refuse to commit yourself to one side or another? The reasons for your refusal to commit are not in question here, merely the fact that you DO refuse.

Answer 10

What's a free-thinker? That you just think about everything and make a decision what you like and don't like or that you think what you believe is right or at least more valid than others', no matter what it is? Sorry if I don't explain it correctly.

Answer 11

I'm a christian.

I don't know.

People expect others to believe in one God.
That's like stupid.

No religions has more credibility than another.