(May 28, 2010 at 7:41 am)Tiberius Wrote: Are you sure you aren't confusing the meaning of the word apatheist with agnostic?
I've heard quite a few definitions of agnostic (most of them wrong), but "not taking a position" I don't think is one of them. The closest would be "maybe God exists", which is partially accurate, although not wholly.
The correct definition is "the view that the existence of god is unknown or unknowable. It deals solely with knowledge and not belief so agnosticism is not a belief and therefore not related to theism or atheism."
I'm not sure you're right about this Tiberius. I don't see why I should have to generalize my lack of knowledge regarding gods to be classified as an agnostic.
Whether gods exist is certainly not something I know about. (I'm not ever quite sure what we are talking about where gods are concerned but that is yet another question.) I do not know if other people have encountered gods and therefore I'm not ready to concede that knowledge of gods is not possible. Some say they have. I'm not willing to change my beliefs based on their eye witness accounts but I don't know for a fact they are mistaken.
