(March 28, 2009 at 7:35 am)Giff Wrote: By the way change your religious view from "Agnostic Atheist" to just "Agnostic". You can't be both things.
Wrong. You can be an agnostic atheist or a gnostic atheist. An agnostic theist or a gnostic theist. A agnostic deist or a gnostic deist...
As a matter of fact it can be a stance on just about anything...
It's whether you claim to have absolute knowledge over something or not.
An agnostic atheist doesn't claim to absolutely 'KNOW' that there is no God...a gnostic atheist DOES. They both however - don't believe in God.
An agnostic THEIST does not claim to absolutely 'KNOW' that there IS a God. A gnostic theist DOES. They both however - DO believe in a theistic God...
An agnostic DEIST...etc, etc, and so on...
I am almost certain that there is no God. I am actually an agnostic but 'close to gnostic' - but I'm not really an actual gnostic because I still DON'T claim absolute knowledge to say that God definitely doesn't exist. I 'merely' say he's about as improbable as the flying spaghetti monster.
So I'm still technically agnostic about God. I don't claim absolute knowledge. This doesn't mean I'm 'unsure' however because I'm only as unsure about God's non-existence as I am unsure about the FSM's non-existence, Zeus's non-existence, the IPU, the tooth fairy, Santa, etc, etc.
EvF
