I sometimes use the term myself, but
agnosticism also describes me.
Not exact matches
They gave up so much, they suffered so much, they endured the searing
agnosticism and cynicism of the Greek mind, always looking for just that sort of thing to say... they
also endured the searching, probing minds of the Jewish Pharisees, seeking with desperation to stop this «new heresy» form spreading.
This Aristotelian approach
also helps us to understand how atheism (or, at least,
agnosticism) can become as widespread as it apparently has become, especially in scientific circles.
Also I would point out «atheism» and «
agnosticism» are not mutually exclusive.
Einstein
also couched his
agnosticism in terms of specific representations of God made by religions not agnostic as to God and certainly not agnostic as to Spinoza's «God»
Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but
also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable.
When it comes to the gods presented by various believers, atheism AND
agnosticism (the two go together, usually as they are not mutually exclusive positions — a grandmother can
also be a wife) is the most sensible stance until proof can be evaluated..
Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but
also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown or unknowable.
This state of affairs not only fails to engage with the core issue at the heart of the culture of death, it
also tacitly encourages
agnosticism about life after death, human freedom, the ultimate nature of evil and the human need for prayer and religious practice.
The unspeakable horrors of 1914 to 1918 not only edged Whitehead out of his
agnosticism; they
also help explain the fact that he did not rejoin the Church of England, or become a communicant of some other.
She
also demonstrated a true commitment to sector -
agnosticism — she visited traditional public schools, not just private and charter ones — and celebrated schools that are as far from her own conservative Christian upbringing as one can imagine — and did it all with grace and humor.