(November 20, 2014 at 2:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote: re: agnosticism
Bullshit. Agnosticism doesn't have to be seen as a confidence rating-- it is, in fact, a position, which I hold. When asked, "Do you think God exists," you have three perfectly coherent and distinguishable responses: 1) Yes, I think God exists; 2) No, I don't think God exists; 3) I don't know whether God exists.
There are gnostics and agnostics on either side.
So the extreme left/right position, in lack of a better word, would be "I know, god exists" and "I know, god doesn't exist".
I call myself an agnostic atheist, but I'm tending more to gnostic atheism when it comes to the biblical god.