I used to consider myself agnostic but the reason I jumped to atheism was because I thought with agnosticism your position is that god can neither be proven or dis-proven and there is no way to know with our current tools and abilities.
However, one could say the same for almost anything the human imagination can create, eg. the FSM, IPU, flying teapot, etc. My point is you can create any imaginary being and claim it is true and at the same time cannot be proven wrong with absolute certainty.
We are quick to deny the existence of invisible unicorns and fairies, so what makes the Judeo-Christian god so different that it is OK to be agnostic about it? I think YHWH as well as the thousands of gods created by mankind are just products of the imagination of people of the time to try and explain what they could not. But, why should we take one god or imaginary being more seriously than the others?
However, one could say the same for almost anything the human imagination can create, eg. the FSM, IPU, flying teapot, etc. My point is you can create any imaginary being and claim it is true and at the same time cannot be proven wrong with absolute certainty.
We are quick to deny the existence of invisible unicorns and fairies, so what makes the Judeo-Christian god so different that it is OK to be agnostic about it? I think YHWH as well as the thousands of gods created by mankind are just products of the imagination of people of the time to try and explain what they could not. But, why should we take one god or imaginary being more seriously than the others?
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
