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Originally Posted by Hilch
One thing I'm always curious about, and maybe it has already been answered, but what if you believe in the wrong god, will you be punished for that? How is that any different from not believing at all?
I'm personally not willing to commit to any particular reason why we are here because I don't believe there is enough evidence to say 100%. The world, solar system and universe is far too big to commit to being an atheist, however I feel like there is far too little evidence to believe in any religion we have on earth today.
I'm comfortable saying "I don't know" where I feel atheists/agnostics and religious folk feel it's there way or no way, you are wrong and I am right type attitude.
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Just had to take issue with the part I bolded. You can't put a slash between the two terms and treat them like they represent a single position. There are agnostic theists just as there are agnostic atheists.
Marchhare already pointed out that your perspective is in line with what a lot of atheists think. I'd add that you're possibly also a weak agnostic: by this, I mean that based on your statements, it sounds like you feel that we don't have enough information right now to say anything certain about the existence of God, but also that it sounds like you feel that the existence of God is something that could be proven with the right evidence. A strong agnostic, on the other hand, would argue that the existence or non-existence of God is an unknowable proposition.
It's sometimes expressed as a quadrant graph, which is a useful way of thinking about it:
Although this isn't exactly accurate either, because there are different types of agnosticism that are difficult to order and often overlap, and the term 'gnosticism' doesn't really apply to atheism.