A question to the agnostics?

Question

All i see is questions on here for either the religious or the none religious

and i'm just sitting here

an agnostic

with nothing directed at me

so this one is for the agnostics

Why are you agnostic?

Why are you not able to chose a side?

my answer is really long so i won't answer, just everyone else

or maybe there are no other agnostics in this section and the question won't be answered

oh well...

Answer 1

I am an agnostic.  Although I don't know what you mean by a "side", I'll try to give you my opinion and answer your question about why I'm an agnostic.  

As a child I grew up in the church, believed everything I heard from the pulpit as well as from the bible.  Then when I was old enough to be told there really wasn't a Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, I thought to myself, if there really isn't a Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, then there must also not be a god and the bible must be a book of fairy tales.

Then as I matured I began to see famous evangelists that got into trouble for doing the very things that they preached against.  That was about the time that I finally decided that I no longer believed in all this hocus-pocus.  So now I no longer believe in the reality of any of the gods of any religion on earth.  

But I know at some point in time some of these things had to be created by some force.  So now I believe in a supreme creator who is so mysterious that no one on earth knows anything about him or her.  Nor will they ever know.  

Answer 2

I believe in God.

some people choose not to.

I have trouble understanding how someone won't choose one way or the other...

an atheist has faith that there is no God.

a Christian has faith that there is a God.

So, an agnostic has no faith, correct?

I find this all extremely interesting.

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

-Albert Camus

Answer 3

I'm an atheist-agnostic. I don't believe God exists due to complete lack of evidence, but I'm open to anything. I take this position because in my mind, it's the only logical one.

Answer 4

Im all of that. theist, atheist, agnostic, philosopher, ...

Allways the question of what God you talking about.

Answer 5

Knowledge and belief are not synonymous. I place vastly more weight on what can or cannot be known, rather than what I believe or don't believe to be true.

Accepting that I cannot know is not the same as not being able to choose a side. It's embracing the reality that there is no logic to making that choice.

I just turned 50 and there has never been a definitive argument for either side. Therefore, I would argue that both sides are acting out of delusion.

However, this still leaves the door open to faith, which doesn't rely on knowledge OR belief. But that's a whole other question.

Answer 6

I am Agnostic because no religion has any more proof than any other religion. So how could I go with any belief, when I fully know that they don't have proof? How could I say I'm right when I know that there's a possibility that I'm not?

I do practise some Paganism, but like every other religion, it doesn't have any concrete proof either-- so I can't proclaim that it's the "right religion" anyway, and therefor shouldn't. I also believe in science and evolution, but I'll admit that they don't have all the answers either and can't say 100% that we weren't created.

Agnostic=logic...how could we say which reigion is 100% right, when we couldn't even prove it?

Answer 7

We are all basically agnostic..  Even though a lot of people will not admit to it.. So, don't feel so left out.

Answer 8

because there has been no evidence of this god person so far. But In my heart I really wish there was more of a point to our existence hence  I choose to keep an open mind.

Heck on 2nd thoughts I am not even an agnostic. I'm a deist

Answer 9

I saw an agnostic complaining on Y!A once about how there were no questions for them.  So I thought I'd throw them a bone and I asked something cheeky like "Agnostics, why can't you pick a side?"  

Then the answers blasted me for being so intolerant and so forth.  Be careful what you wish for, I guess is the moral of the story.

Answer 10

I think we all take sides- even you. You have chosen the third side. The benefit of the side you have taken is that one does not wear blinkers and is able to question everything. I think that everyone should at some time or the other question everything. I still do. At the same time I do not think that we must get stuck in that position because if we do then we would be no different than the first two. We've like made it into a religion. I believe in the freedom of consciousness - to follow what is right and what makes sense, yet not let this tie me down but to still have the freedom to strive to know even more.  

Answer 11

The past is memories which are fallible. The present is an illusion created by our senses. The future is probablistic. Why would I "believe" anything? To believe is to compromise reality. Those with firm beliefs are living in a fairy tale of their own construction. You cannot learn if you assume you know everything

Answer 12

I'm Agnostic because I don't really know.I'm leaning towards Atheism more and more as I grow up.Even if I did believe in God,I would not be part of any religion because religion just sucks.I would probably be a deist like the Founding Fathers.

I do wish there was proof whether or not God existed so that people can stop fighting about which religion is right. It's so unnecessary to fight over something that you don't have proof of.

Also,if God did exist,I don't think that he would be like the one described in the Bible. I don't think he would care if you're g*y or have pre-marital s*x. A loving God wouldn't care

Answer 13

I'm agnostic, but lean toward atheism. It is kind of boring to not have much of a stand on the idea of god...so its nice to act like an atheist and argue against religion. As far as I'm concerned, none of the religions of the world are right (I mean, they are man-made).

I would have to say I am more irreligious than agnostic or atheist though. I think there is probably some sort of thing (possibly just "mother nature") out there. I don't think there is necessarily anything out there answering prayers or caring at all about us or our well-being.

And to answer your question of why I can't chose a side. I've rationalized that there are a 50% chance there is god and a 50% chance there isn't god. Of that 50% chance there is a god, it is split up into infinite smaller percentiles for every single possible gods (ones that haven't even been conceived by the human mind yet or possibly ever included). I also think that if there is a god, they will get way more pissed off at people who spent their life worshipping the wrong god than at people who just weren't sure or even thought there wasn't a god. At least the atheists and agnostics didn't spend their whole life worshipping a false idol.

And as an agnostic, at least my beliefs are correct. Sure, they aren't as correct as saying if there is a god or not and being right. However, you can't be correct as an atheist in your belief of knowing there isn't a god because you don't know. You probably aren't correct in any of the world's religions in your belief that some specific person or whatever is god. As an agnostic, you are 100% correct in your belief that we don't know and have no way of knowing if there is a god or not.

Answer 14

I don't feel a need to choose a side.

I honestly don't know if there is a God or not.  

I do KNOW that the religions of the world are all fabricated from older religions.  It is my honest opinion that IF there is a God, no human has ever encountered that being.  It never wrote a book, it never had a son, and it never even considered the sinful nature of humanity.  It's simply not paying any attention at all to humanity and barely notices this section of the universe.

Just my opinion

Answer 15

I can't choose a side because there is no evidence to support either one. I lost my faith years ago because I felt that if God did exist, he is not kind or loving.