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Sand
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20 Jan 2010, 12:07 am

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I wonder why it is of any consequence if people day God created the universe or merely that no one really knows how it all started. Is it a form of egomania to merely deny ignorance?

Maybe they for some reason buy into the cosmological/first cause argument for the existence of God (presumably out of not thinking about it for more than two seconds), or maybe they've been raised to believe in God, but over time lost most of that belief except for the creator bit, or maybe they cling to believing in God because it's more socially accepted than questioning the existence of God. I don't really think it's any crazier than any other form of theism.


I suppose we can leave it at that.



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21 Jan 2010, 2:25 pm

All the self-professed agnostics I know go about their daily lives in pretty much the same way as atheists, and are not religious. So I don't really see the point in making a distinction. The definition of agnostic covers people who think there's probably a God, but aren't quite sure, who I would call religious, but they seem to be quite rare--most people who form that opinion end up sliding further one way or the other soon afterwards.

I think most agnostics know they're non-religious, and that they're not much different from the atheists, but once they discover the term 'agnostic' they choose to use that rather than the more confrontational and controversial 'atheist'.



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21 Jan 2010, 3:41 pm

Atheism venn diagram:

http://planetatheism.com/author/goditself/