Atheist or Agnostic?

[abaris]

Atheist philosopher David Stove called religion, and Christianity in particular, "terrifying." He had a point. So this may fit the bill.

Again, whether you heed or fail to heed Pascal's wage is your life and none of my business. I only say that logically, it has some sway; that is, the (practical) choice of atheism is not self-evident for an agnostic who (speculatively) neither affirms nor denies the existence of God.

You mean the christian god, catholic edition. You may have noticed that there are other gods. Why not give Wishna a chance? Why not Allah? Why not Zeus or Odin or Osiris, Isis and all the other gods that have been and sometimes exited longer than the christian version, which again looks very different for a mainstream protestant or an Evangelical, a Yehowahs witness, a mormon and all the other denominations. Why not go with Arianism, which was much more prevalent in the early days until it was utterly crushed by Rome?

You see, there are many possibilities to ruin your life fretting over someone looking over your shoulder.