RE: Am I an Agnostic?
July 3, 2011 at 8:14 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2011 at 9:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Assuming that most of us are products of western civilization...when we say "god"..we mean a very specific god. A judeo-christian god. It is not, in this case, "insane" to know that the god in question is a fabrication, considering the vast amounts of information freely available to anyone who wishes to understand where and how this particular concept of god arose. If this god wished to remain mysterious, an unknown, he should not have left us such a hefty paper trail.
Proposing the idea of an indescribable or unknowable god is not equal to proposing the idea of the christian (or any other variant) god.
This is exactly what I'm referring to when I make the statement that the theist would like to assume the deist's armor. The trouble is that he simply cannot do this while remaining faithful to any one of the many concepts of god.
Proposing the idea of an indescribable or unknowable god is not equal to proposing the idea of the christian (or any other variant) god.
This is exactly what I'm referring to when I make the statement that the theist would like to assume the deist's armor. The trouble is that he simply cannot do this while remaining faithful to any one of the many concepts of god.
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