Greetings

[Brian37]

Hello Wright and welcome to AF! ^_^

Are you only against orthodox christianity, or does every sect, religion and cult fall into the same category?

Thanks. What I oppose is the hypocrisy of orthodox Christianity.
I created a blog recently about it.

So you know Apu from the Simpsons? Just kidding. Just meet me after school and kick my ass.

In all seriousness though, you call yourself "agnostic". But that really cannot be a stand alone word.

It was a word horribly cobbled together by Thomas Huxley to mean "fence sitter". But when you take a literal look at the Greek prefix "a" and the Greek suffix "gnostic" it cannot be a stand alone word.

"A" means without
"gnostic" means knowledge

Neither describe a position, but degree of knowledge. So "agnostic" can only be a qualifying word expressing your lack of knowledge, but it is not a position.

A dimmer switch on a light can be all the way on, or close to off, but once off it is off, not in between.

There is the outright believer or "theist" who claims a specific god.

Then there is the "agnostic theist" who does not give this "thing" a label but thinks there might be something out there and leans to "something being out there.

Then there is the outright, or "strong" atheist, who is sure that there is no god.

But, you can also be an "agnostic atheist". You don't know if there is not a god, but current evidence and current claims don't lead you to holding that position so you stay an atheist at the current time.

I am an outright atheist as far as the past and present. I am sure none of the claims so far are credible. I am strictly semantically an "agnostic atheist" as far as the future, only in the strictest sense that I have not lived the future, but I damned sure find it highly unlikely.

Bottom line RIGHT NOW is that I do not believe and I see no credible evidence for a god. "agnostic" has to go in front of theist or atheist to make sense. It cannot stand alone.