RE: Why Agnosticism?
July 1, 2011 at 9:07 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2011 at 9:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Why agnosticism? I ask this question constantly. Agnostics by definition seem to be willing to posit the deist god. The deist concept of god is a god in the same way that an absentee father is a parent, ie..not at all. In what way is the deist concept of god functionally different than no god? If religions were full of gods who did nothing, offered no reward or punishment, and left no holy texts I would have absolutely no disagreement with the concept of god. The deist is in effect, claiming that a god who is not a god (by any practical definition) could exist.
I understand the logic employed to defend this position. I simply feel that it is a factually meaningless position. If a god cannot fulfill any of the roles man has assigned to him since time immemorial, of what value is the concept of god?
Apparently there is no gap so small, or so inconsequential that the concept of god can't be shoehorned to fit within its borders.
I understand the logic employed to defend this position. I simply feel that it is a factually meaningless position. If a god cannot fulfill any of the roles man has assigned to him since time immemorial, of what value is the concept of god?
Apparently there is no gap so small, or so inconsequential that the concept of god can't be shoehorned to fit within its borders.
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