If it were not for attachment to culture and traditions, sub-cultures and overly intellectualism.....wouldn't most of us all come to a common ground of Agnosticism?
Agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of God or gods; or, alternatively, that while individual certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves some form of skepticism. ~From Wikipedia
2007-11-27 02:09:36 · 14 answers · asked by Lo Lo Mai 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You're probably right.
Most Christians I know admit that you can't have absolute imperical evidence about God. They rely on a subjective proof that tells them God exists despite whatever doubts they might have.
2007-11-27 02:12:41 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We certainly wouldn't call ourselves that. If it were not for our attachment to culture and traditions, we would consider gods to be just as mythical as elves or faeries. Sure in a technical, pedantic sense we can't prove they don't exist. But we know they don't with the same certainty that we know our entire life up to this point hasn't been a hallucination. So either we'd consider ourselves agnostic about everything other than our own existence (which would make the word 'agnostic' all but meaningless) or we'd simply say that we don't believe in gods.
2007-11-27 02:20:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say everyone is a weak agnostic ( Without knowledge of gods ). Any category which includes everyone is a pretty useless category though.
A strong agnostic claims knowledge of gods is impossible. Which I believe might be true but I would never make such a claim since If it is true I could never know such a thing.
2007-11-27 02:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look, given the amount of god-myths either this place is swarming with supernatural sky-daddies (who despite their omnipotence and omnipresence seem strangely elusive and bring no real evidence to the table), or all religions are talking about one supernatural sky-daddy (which the attributes ascribed to each seem to rule out), OR it is the invention of primitive people for things they couldn't explain any other way.
2007-11-27 02:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may as well call that group the "I don't know group, and I give up." I prefer the group of "It can't be proven so quit making things up." Also known as Athiest. Anyone can say things, it's when people start believing it and cultivating it we get issues like this and dumb questions like, "Do you believe in ghosts? Or Bigfoot?"
2007-11-27 02:22:26 · answer #5 · answered by Ryan P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Agosticism is the only intellectually honest perspective when it comes to God. But since most people by nature are NOT intelectually honest, the answer is no.
2007-11-27 02:13:17 · answer #6 · answered by justin_I 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes I do. Most people who claim to be religious are actually not so. They are usually laymen who are 'forced' into religion by their parents, forced by their own parents and so on.
2007-11-27 02:17:00 · answer #7 · answered by T Delfino 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to be an agnostic..I am now a Christian. I don't think most people are agnostic.
2007-11-27 02:13:21 · answer #8 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not agree that most people are agnostic. I think that lots of people believe that there is a God. They just don't go to church.
2007-11-27 02:22:15 · answer #9 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No, most people have such a strong need to know that if they don't know, they make it up.
2007-11-27 02:19:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋