(August 21, 2010 at 12:23 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote:(August 21, 2010 at 12:08 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: If he believes them, why is he agnostic?
Maybe because agnosticism is about knowledge and not belief. Knowledge entails belief but belief doesn't necessarily entail knowledge.
I assumed that he meant 'agnostic' in the popular sense i.e. someone who suspends judgement about God's existence.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
