Question about atheism related with gnosticism and agnosticism
July 10, 2014 at 4:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2014 at 4:29 pm by Dystopia.)
As we all know, gnosticism means 'to have knowledge' while agnosticism means 'an absence of knowledge'. If I am an agnostic atheist, I lack belief in gods but I don't claim to know if there are any. If I'm a gnostic atheist, I don't believe in any gods and claim no gods exist.
My question is, do you have to be fully agnostic or gnostic or can you be partially gnostic and agnostic (regarding atheism)? I'll explain it better, could I claim to be a gnostic atheist regarding religion, by pointing out arguments such as the contradiction between godlike characteristics, lack of evidence to provide validity of holy books, bad things that happen in the world, etc, and use them as evidence to prove all religions are false and their gods are non existent? Therefore I could claim 'religious gods' don't exist. And at the same time could I be an agnostic atheist regarding simple agnostic theism without religious affiliation or deism/pantheism because I really can't proof those propositions are wrong since the deist god doesn't intervene with the world and there are no holy scriptures?
My question is, do you have to be fully agnostic or gnostic or can you be partially gnostic and agnostic (regarding atheism)? I'll explain it better, could I claim to be a gnostic atheist regarding religion, by pointing out arguments such as the contradiction between godlike characteristics, lack of evidence to provide validity of holy books, bad things that happen in the world, etc, and use them as evidence to prove all religions are false and their gods are non existent? Therefore I could claim 'religious gods' don't exist. And at the same time could I be an agnostic atheist regarding simple agnostic theism without religious affiliation or deism/pantheism because I really can't proof those propositions are wrong since the deist god doesn't intervene with the world and there are no holy scriptures?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
