(October 5, 2012 at 4:34 pm)Hughsie Wrote:(October 5, 2012 at 4:31 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Should somebody come along and prove god exists (won't happen of course, I know there is no god) then obviously I'd be wrong.
How can you be certain of what will transpire in the future though?
If you defined gnosticism as personal certainty, then it is not illegal. If you define gnosticism as absolute certainty, then...we'd have to be agnostic about the world not ending on the solstice this year, or agnostic that people we meet online aren't actually alines. However, if it would be unreasonable to think something, you can claim to 'know' it, even if you may be wrong in the future. If you are, say, 85% sure there is no god, then you might be an agnostic atheist, but if you are like Insanity x and myself, and would prefer to round up from near certainty, you could say that god doesn't exist as a fact rather than a belief.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
