Atheists & Agnostics

Tobin S.

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5. That's not agnosticism for me.

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 05:18 PM

Dec 2015

I don't believe in any religion. Just like atheists, I think it's all a sham. I think we will be far better off as a global society as religion is slowly relinquishing it's hold on a lot of people. The thing that makes me agnostic is that I can't tell you what happens after you die. There's no evidence that any part of us survives death, but the only way anyone can find out for certain is to die. The afterlife appears highly unlikely. Nobody is reporting back to us. But I really don't know for certain.

It's a fine distinction. Many atheists would probably consider me an atheist. I call myself an agnostic.

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Andrew Seidel [View all] RussBLib Dec 2015 OP

He's WONDERFUL!!! PeaceNikki Dec 2015 #1

My Analogy Cartoonist Dec 2015 #2

well that does not accurately portray how I see the two terms. OriginalGeek Dec 2015 #4

No rain Cartoonist Dec 2015 #8

Ok but still, agnosticism isn't a fence-riding position in the middle OriginalGeek Dec 2015 #10

That's not agnosticism for me. Tobin S. Dec 2015 #5

You die, that is all. Cartoonist Dec 2015 #9

No, I'm not. I just don't know. Nobody does. Tobin S. Dec 2015 #14

I think that is how a lot of people use the word. But that isn't what it is definitionally Goblinmonger Dec 2015 #11

Of course they're not! Brainstormy Dec 2015 #12

lol, he's in a twitter war with Adam Baldwin OriginalGeek Dec 2015 #3

Adam Baldwin is fucking nuts. Act_of_Reparation Dec 2015 #7

Andrew Seidel expressed it well, but.. Yorktown Dec 2015 #6

Agnostics are still atheists Lordquinton Dec 2015 #13