(January 11, 2017 at 3:11 am)robvalue Wrote: That's the thing, really. Your average agnostic atheist probably lives their life in exactly the same way as a gnostic one. You'd have to have very serious concerns about a specific kind of God being possibly real before it affected your behavior. Just thinking "there might be some sort of God" isn't enough to affect behavior, as far as I can see. What difference does it make, if you have no information about it?
For sure. There's this weird pass that we give religion and/or god(s) where just because we cannot prove it is untrue, we have to consider ourselves agnostic atheists, when in reality most of us, or at least a lot of us, are probably gnostic atheists in the sense that, what difference does it really make?
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
