Comments on: Are we all agnostic? http://notaboutreligion.com/2009/04/17/are-we-all-agnostic/ An intelligent, open-minded discussion of belief and non-belief...for entertainment purposes only. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:24:08 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Will http://notaboutreligion.com/2009/04/17/are-we-all-agnostic/comment-page-1/#comment-6657 Will Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:47:53 +0000 http://notaboutreligion.com/?p=1004#comment-6657 Todd.... First I agree 100% with you and Second.... you are not the only one that acknowledges this, though we are few. The term Agnosticism still means exactly what it meant from the original definition, but in time has gained some additions to itself. The core meaning is still retained though as anything else. Today you have Theist Agnostics, Atheist Agnostics, Hard Agnostics, Soft Agnostics and on and on and on....... Geez! But all kidding aside, an agnostic is the person on the side of the road while the rest are traveling to belief in a deity or away from belief in a deity or whatever the subject at hand may be. Having belief one way or the other or being decided or undecided has nothing to do with the cold hard facts and the fact is I don't know if there is or isn't , you don't and no one else doest factually. There are somethings that we believe we have knowledge of 100% factually, but just refer to science, or within science to physics and you will even find change of "facts" there a lot of times. The main point I am making here is if you KNOW for certain, with 100% fact then you know. Otherwise you don't and even though you may not acknowledge it or profess it, that makes you an Agnostic. To end, you were not being arrogant. Probably 80% of the world at one time believed that the world was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth and that was science at the time. Maybe in the future humanity with know, but at the moment We Are All Agnostic. Todd…. First I agree 100% with you and Second…. you are not the only one that acknowledges this, though we are few. The term Agnosticism still means exactly what it meant from the original definition, but in time has gained some additions to itself. The core meaning is still retained though as anything else. Today you have Theist Agnostics, Atheist Agnostics, Hard Agnostics, Soft Agnostics and on and on and on……. Geez! But all kidding aside, an agnostic is the person on the side of the road while the rest are traveling to belief in a deity or away from belief in a deity or whatever the subject at hand may be. Having belief one way or the other or being decided or undecided has nothing to do with the cold hard facts and the fact is I don’t know if there is or isn’t , you don’t and no one else doest factually. There are somethings that we believe we have knowledge of 100% factually, but just refer to science, or within science to physics and you will even find change of “facts” there a lot of times.

The main point I am making here is if you KNOW for certain, with 100% fact then you know. Otherwise you don’t and even though you may not acknowledge it or profess it, that makes you an Agnostic. To end, you were not being arrogant. Probably 80% of the world at one time believed that the world was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth and that was science at the time. Maybe in the future humanity with know, but at the moment We Are All Agnostic.

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