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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Not really. The technical definitions are as follows:
Agnosticism — is unknown or inherently unknowable. Some agnostics take a stronger view that the concept of a deity is incoherent, thus meaningless and irrelevant to life. |
Toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe. By either your definition or mine, I think Agamemnon will place himself firmly in the agnostic camp.
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Cheese:
"My faith is in the human race...I believe that people are inherantly good and moral and dont need a "religion" to make them so."
Funny. I would tend towards the opposite. I believe that people are inherantly amoral, driven by primal instincts of greed and selfishness and they need a religion to force them make moral choices. Carl Sagan went from "The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble." to working with organized religion on environmental and international relief projects towards the end of his life. I can't remember the exact quote, but it went something like "I used to believe that religion was a primary cause of all the strife on Earth. I now believe that religion may be the only cure." He, himself, remained an athiest, but he believed that the only means of getting enough people to believe in things like "global warming" instead of their own greed and selfishness was to partner with organized religion.