RE: Challenge regarding Christian morality
February 14, 2015 at 4:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2015 at 4:09 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 14, 2015 at 3:59 pm)RobbyPants Wrote: We might be using the terms differently, but I consider myself to be both. Atheist because I don't believe in any gods and agnostic because I don't believe one can prove there are no gods.
Yes, to beat a dead horse, (using the formal definitions) atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive positions.
I would phrase my agnosticism a bit differently than you did, but the thinking is pretty much the same.
Agnosticism - the position that the existence of a god or gods is either unknown, and possibly unknowable.
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.
