(May 13, 2011 at 10:17 am)Eudaimonia Wrote:(May 13, 2011 at 10:00 am)SleepingDemon Wrote: Agnosticism is atheism lite, like intelligent design is creationism lite. Lets not forget that possibility is not synonymous with probability, and as intellectual beings we have to seperate the possible from the probable.
As I understand the term.. agnosticism is simply realizing the question of God is as relevant as query asking if there is a smiley face on the sun... There is no position because there is no relevance..
Perhaps. But that isn't the position implied by this thread. The first post sets the premise that because one cannot disprove god, then it is safer to dwell in the maybe zone than make a judgement.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
