People are therefore really agnostics or unsure because God might exist outside their known knowledge.
2007-12-29 12:44:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i agree. An Atheist can't say that there isn't a God any more than a Theist can say there is because neither knows for sure. I personally like to believe there could be something else out there, but i don't claim to know exactly who or what it is because i don't. No one does. So it does seem pretty foolish how people fight over something that neither can ever really know or prove. The world would be a better place if everyone could just admit that they don't know everything and just have their own ideas, but be open to others' as well.
2007-12-29 12:59:43 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Understood 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nonsense the very concept of "god" is impossible. All cannot begin yet be preceded by some entity, for it to be preceded by anything there must have existed something hence it was not the beginning... the old "where did god come from then"? or "what made god"? God is a character in a law book from long ago when organized policing was impossible so in order to keep people from doing that which was considered bad this "god" was created. watch the movie "Zeitgeist". The wool is being pulled over your eyes for the sole purposes of power.
2007-12-29 23:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by iconoclast_ensues 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An atheist is someone who does not BELIEVE that god exists. It is possible to be a true atheist, by truly believing that there is no god or gods.
A religious person is someone who believes in the existence of god or gods. It is possible to be a true religious person, by BELIEVING that god exists.
However, neither of these points are relevant to whether god exists or not. Either god exists, or he does not. Our beliefs have no power over what does or does not actually exist. By acknowledging that humans do not have perfect knowledge, we must acknowledge that it is impossible for anyone to say for certain whether god exists. This point applies for theists as well as atheists.
This suggests that if one accepts that humans cannot know for certain (in the 'absolute knowledge kind of way) about the existence of god, then that person should identify themself as agnostic. This would not preclude them from having faith (if they wanted to), it would simply require them to acknowledge the limitations of human experience and knowledge.
To argue with certainty that god exists, without acknowledgement of our limitations and the possibility of error, is as fallible as an argument that he does not.
2007-12-30 07:49:01 · answer #3 · answered by r_osebud 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An atheist is not one who believes anything on faith. Rather, by definition, an atheist is a person who disbelieves the existence of a supreme being because such a belief would be contrary to knowledge. The atheist is no more unsure whether there's a god than he is unsure whether there is a santa claus.
2007-12-29 21:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by alex42z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am AGNOSTIC, as I firmly believe. That the GOD, that is promoted by the Roman Catholic, Cof E, the Protestant and any other RELIGION.
Is only MANIFESTATIONS, of people who are to easily convinced, ignorant, afraid, in Fear of their community or relish in other people, giving them Authority and in the words of 'Neitsche'.
'God Does Not Exist', in the theological basis that the majority of Humanity, awards it.
I believe that there, MAY be something that exerts some description of control over us. That something could be, FATE or CHANCE.
I DON'T KNOW.
However I have been wrong before, and may be again.
I don't know till I die, & then I wont care.
2007-12-29 21:04:34 · answer #5 · answered by Trent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Unless you take the attitude, "Who needs God when you got me."...i.e. you BELIEVE you are the holder of perfect knowdedge, unquestionable absolute truth. By the same token, no one can be absolutely sure if the existence of God. Because this too would require perfect knowledge. Something that we as mortals don't have the luxury of. It's all about faith and believe.
2007-12-29 21:45:19 · answer #6 · answered by LG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is never a wise person who mistakes faith, that a God indeed exists, needs any more proof than the air you breathe, or the life you see all around you.... That is what human fools like Niechie or Hitler would have you believe.... Their path is set and no one can make them see the obvious truth , not even if God himself appeared to them in the flesh would they believe it , and God himself has even said that about them...Let them go their way , just don't follow them to where their going .... When their eye's close for the last time , in that final moment, they will know the truth of what they have chosen to believe in , and i wouldn't take that wonderful moment away from them for all the riches in the entire universe...........
2007-12-29 21:13:21 · answer #7 · answered by Noah's Ark 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a human creation, a concept.
I am a true Atheist because I am sure god does not exist; and I have not even a single doubt about it.
A really pity that we cannot live after death.
2007-12-29 20:57:03 · answer #8 · answered by Luís Santos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An atheist is not someone who knows God is not real. It is someone who believes that there is no God in the same way a Christian believes there is a God. The key word: believe.
2007-12-29 20:49:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
By this logic, no one could claim to disbelieve in anything whatsoever, as no one has perfect knowledge. An atheist would claim that he disbelieves in god in precisely the same sense that you disbelieve Zeus, unicorns, or leprechauns.
2007-12-29 21:38:21 · answer #10 · answered by Hermoderus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋