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Is it normal that I think someone who says they don't know if a stupid fairy tale is true or not is just about as stupid as a person who absolutely does believe in it?
I'm agnostic. I believe in science, but we can't (dis)prove that there isn't some other power out there. I don't deny the possibility. We're microscopic creatures in a universe that we know next to nothing about.
Religious people believe God made man. Atheists belive man made God. Agnostics believe no one can say either with certainty.
You can be an atheist and an agnostic. One answers what you believe and one answers what you know or can know. I can’t know whether a god exists or not but I believe that one doesn’t. Any atheist or religious person who says that they know a god does or doesn’t exist is full of crap I personally believe that there is no god but I’m smart enough to know that I can’t know for sure
You should respect people no matter what they think (unless they say the Earth is flat or that the sun is a planet). I'm agnostic and I'm less of an idiot than some people who do/don't believe. In fact, it's quite clever to be agnostic. You get to look at both sides of the argument and work something out
So this is either a troll, edge lord, or kid who just learned about atheism and is frustrated that agnosticism requires a higher level of logic than taunting theists with childish insults
This grinds my gears. For me its more like dude dont lump me in with anyone i dont know whats out there but i also dont care and im not trying to figure out who made the ant farm . Just work ants ,do as youre told!
Religion and faith isn't an easy thing to discuss.
For many, God gave everyone free will; which includes being able to accept or deny Him and/or accept or deny he exists.
Atheists can't prove he does or does not exist yet we to some level, can. The Bible is not the only thing and without an in-person evenly biased debate with a mediator then things are bound to go only so far.
They aren't stupid but maybe uninformed. Maybe they have some past issue that prevents them. Maybe they feel better without the 'authoritative figure and rules' of a deity. Regardless, I won't push one belief on them too hard. You can alienate a lot of people as well as give yourself a bad image to others. Unless you're willing to go to that level, then there are other variables to take into account.
If we don't have proof that something/someone exists, then it's pointless to ask if it exists or not.
Ok OP humour me this: don't you think its arrogant to say you know for absolutely sure there isn't a higher power(s) of any kind? We simply don't know. Doesn't have to be the Jewish God. Other religions have multiple gods of varying degrees of power and control of human affairs. Some simply exist. Its just an interesting fact that every single culture on earth had some type of higher power they brlieved in, created separately of each other but with the same basic characteristics.
Yeah but then that can be explained by the fact that those gods are all byproducts of an instrument that all humans share: the human brain. Because humans are so similar, many different cultures also independently created lots of other things too like music, art, stories, similar weapons, farming, buildings, etc.
Agnostics also say that they don't know and can't tell for certain whether God is real or not, which is true as far as they know.
I believe that God is real, but if I were asked to prove his existence, I would be unable to, unless he decided to work a miracle in front of the person.
An atheist, even if they think that they've debunked every religion known to man, cannot prove some god, who simply hasn't shown himself, doesn't exist.
The agnostic is most logical, and realistic to the best of their abilities.
You’ve got a nice list there, mind if I add to it?
STUPID PEOPLE
1) Religious people
2) Agnostics
and.....
3) you
Agnostics such as myself sit on the fence about the whole idea of a deity. I perfer to think like if I die and I’m wrong about a god exsisting then boom I just cease to exsist. If I’m right about a god exsisting I hope my human logic of sitting on a fence is more logical then joining a set religion with a set god; hoping that the god understands my line of thinking.