Would Agnosticism be a good middle ground for Atheists and Christians?

Question

I myself am an Atheist, but I have said many times that I am not the smartest person who ever lived. I don't know everything, nor will I ever. Christians, not many, but some will admit the same thing. Could we all just get together and admit that we are "not so smart"?

Answer 1

I'm a Christian. I don't know everything, either, and cannot possibly arrive at the point of knowing everything. But I don't know if I'm quite ready for agnosticism. I don't have a problem with others choosing agnosticism, but am not sure if I would adopt that position for myself. The thing is, I do believe in God. There are many things that remain unknown to me about the nature of God, but the simple fact that I do believe leaves me unsure about saying "I don't know" regarding my own personal belief. To say that I was completely agnostic could possibly suggest that I've turned my back on my religion, which I simply haven't. I suppose I'm selectively agnostic about a number of things, though, and the phrase "I don't know" becomes easier for me to say every year older I get.

Answer 2

There will never be a middle ground, there will be people who believe and people who don't believe and the only worldly problem with atheism is that in some emo kind of way atheists have lately been just as pushy as Christians. Agnostics are by far a worse conception of man. To put it in simple terms agnostics are lazy lukewarm people by belief structure alone, its just as bad as being catholic to say that one can live the way they want to and simply choose in the end how and where to go based on what you learn from what is faced before you. The Bible actually shuns agnostics more then atheists simply by the fact that assuming an agnostic position you are lukewarm. Instead of standing up for what you believe in its making yrou own rules and expecting to not pay the consequances.

Answer 3

The notion that agnosticism is the middle floor between atheism and theism has become firmly entrenched regularly custom, and that i doubt that it will distinction any time promptly. particularly situations I ultimate persons as quickly as they misuse the term, whether i've got self belief i do no longer make various an have an consequence on. I ask your self what number of people are even unsleeping that there is that this way of element as gnosticism, or of the situation of prefixing a word with 'a'.

Answer 4

It's not a 50/50 proposition. The Christians are massively wrong, so we should not seek a compromise with Unreality and make 50% Unreality the law of the land. Only Atheism views the world as it really is, a vast universe of not-God extending out for 78 billion light-years. It's really amazing how much not-God we can see, and anybody who claims different had better prove it, and had better prove any "invisible realm" they make as an excuse for why we see only not-God. Any theist is stuck in a fading parchment of Medieval cosmology, Earth at the center and surrounded by various forest animals, screaming and screaming because the inked deer and the rats are nibbling on his buttocks...

Answer 5

You know, that might be true but I still don't reserve some space for invisible purple dragons living in the sky to exist. So why do we do so for gods? Are they special? No. The only god that could possibly exist is the deist type, the clock winder that walked away, and then, why postulate a god at all?

Answer 6

Its not the middle ground,its the only ground. We're all Agnostic. Some have the wisdom to admit that, others don't

Answer 7

That's not a bad idea - in theory. I personally have never met a christian that was willing to admit the bible could be wrong or that there isn't a god, though.

Answer 8

I think an agnostic is actually an atheist by definition.

Atheist = lack belief in god.

Don't agnostics lack belief in god? If they *didn't* lack belief in God then they would be theists wouldn't they?

Edit: an agnostic can be theistic or atheistic, by definition agnostiscm is the assertion that knowing God's existence id impossible. It has nothing to do with 'belief'.

Answer 9

aww...Thats what some of us are trying to do. We're tired of the hate between Atheist and Christians. I am Christian myself, But both sides have dif kind of people. Some Atheist are stupid, some Christians are stupid. We're human. Thats all there is. Why not just get along, despite diffrent beliefs?

Meows! =^-^=

Answer 10

what good is middle ground is that like the peanut butter that sticks to the roof of the mouth . two people are waste deep in gasoline one believes in god and death one doesn't who lights the first match.