(September 8, 2012 at 11:15 am)Haydn Wrote: 'Agnostic atheist' dosn't sit right with me . For me personally , i think of the idea of a god ridiculous so it dosn't need to be prooved false , but the fact i can't dosn't make me agnostic about it. By saying you are agnostic/atheist you are implying you are skeptical about a lack of god?
You can't proove or be sure of anything to 100% , but that wouldn't make us agnostic about everything .... so im like agnostic/English ....agnostic/socialist
agnostic/coldplay fan......agnostic/agnostic .... i think you have to draw the line somewhere.
I believe you are not defining the term 'agnostic' correctly in the context of the existence/nonexistence of a god.
Agnostic - a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable.
So, by saying one is an agnostic atheist is nothing more than admitting that the existence of gods is unknown and unknowable. And that one also disbelieves in the existence of gods.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
