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I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate ...
I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.
"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.
A mere society form of Atheism.
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
I rightly pass for an atheist.
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'
Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic.
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion.
I am an atheist.
As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what.
I'm a stone-cold atheist.
You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
I'm a born-again atheist.
We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don't.
Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.
Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions' stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.
Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.
I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?
The absence of theistic belief...
{Defining the word 'atheism'}
Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'
I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.
I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.
Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.
Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics); my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.
Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God.
I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God' ... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.
In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.
Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.
Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.
An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of a being whom he does not conceive, and who is said to unite incompatible qualities.
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.
GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.
Though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious.
Gnosticism has always been difficult to define, largely because it is a system of thought based upon and frequently amended by experiences of nonordinary states of consciousness, and thus it is resistant to theological rigidity.
We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist..
An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.
Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.
I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
We are all atheists.
We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.
To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.
A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
Believes in God the way he believes in politicians-he knows He exists but doesn't count on Him for anything.
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
An Atheist, is nothing but a bankrupt Anarchist.
I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.
I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.
My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
I am a daylight atheist.