I'm agnostic about God in much the same way that Schrodinger is agnostic about his cat: he neither lacks nor firmly holds a belief about either the cat's survival or demise. He sees both answers as simultaneously true/false.
The dirty trick that some people use to force a default by allowing only a particular question: "Do you have an active belief that God exists?" doesn't work for me. I see both God and not-God as viable possibilities, and am completely unable to weight the probabilities of either outcome. God is both real and unreal for me, until I get a chance to open the box. This is NOT a lack of a belief-- it is an unresolved conditional belief-- and it's rude to force someone in this state to see it otherwise.
The dirty trick that some people use to force a default by allowing only a particular question: "Do you have an active belief that God exists?" doesn't work for me. I see both God and not-God as viable possibilities, and am completely unable to weight the probabilities of either outcome. God is both real and unreal for me, until I get a chance to open the box. This is NOT a lack of a belief-- it is an unresolved conditional belief-- and it's rude to force someone in this state to see it otherwise.
