Sentences with phrase «not agnosticism»

Again, it is John Paul II who so powerfully argued, especially in Centesimus Annus, that it is not agnosticism that secures a free and just society but a religiously informed respect for the person and the person in community.

Since when is being spiritual but not religious not agnosticism?

Not exact matches

Agnosticism is not a position in and of itself.

Unfortunately if you are strictly saying atheist, then you need to include Buddhism, agnosticism, Taoism and plenty of others in the number, because they are technically atheists because they do not believe in god / gods.

I would not put atheism and agnosticism into the same category as this man did!!!

Agnosticism is not BETWEEN Atheism and Theism.

Agnosticism is rooted in the realization that there are things that we don't know, and acceptance that we may not ever know them.

Agnosticism is just a step in the direction of Atheism, it does not have the high ground since it gives equal credibility to belief and no belief in religion... they are not equal.

That would tend to show that agnosticism is the default position, not atheism.

Bah, don't let the crazy ol' bible ruin you on some tasty agnosticism.

fda has a point... I am not here to shove religion down any ones throat but man other sure have been shoving atheism and agnosticism down my throat.

This book will set you on the right track... not towards atheism or agnosticism, but on the path to critical thinking and reason.

devin: «So most atheists realize they can't substantiate their position either and do a two step over to agnosticism.»

(Atheism is a claim to know that God does not exist, whereas agnosticism says that we don't or can't know whether there is a God.)

So most atheists realize they can't substantiate their position either and do a two step over to agnosticism.

He sounds agnostic already, I claimed agnosticism for a long time, not understanding I was really an atheist.

I get your point John, I was saying is» Within agnosticism there are agnostic atheists (who do not believe any deity exists, but do not deny it as a possibility)»

Agnosticism does not exist.

It's her choice, of course, but: Why didn't she try agnosticism first?

Most Christian answers to agnosticism seem not to begin to understand the agnosticism; they seem to invoke the compassion of God.

Actually, the argument that agnosticism does not exist and that all agnostics are truly atheist is untrue.

Agnosticism is merely unwillingness to accept that you don't believe.

@ John, what you are describing is called Agnosticism, not Atheism.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant people like you are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

We concede that not all who doubt the existence of a personal God do so because they accept the theory of evolution, whether the word be restricted to biology or enlarged to its cosmic significance, but we do say, and from experience know, that most modern agnosticism is bound up with those non-theistic philosophies of evolution that stream off from Hegel as their modern fountain - head.

It is not reasonable, he argues with great intellectual sophistication, to hold that atheism or agnosticism is the default position of rationality.

Besides if it was a progression, who is to say that agnosticism wasn't the pinnacle?

Gnostic - 100 % certainity; Agnosticism - maybe, maybe not; Theist - believes in god; Atheist doesn't believe in god.

Actually you missed the OP's point: he didn't say atheism and agnosticism are the same thing.

Secondly, he was a staunch anti-theist and atheist, agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive positions and he died an atheist.

Likewise the Intellectual atheism / Agnosticism type has a lot in common with intellectual theology, although they are clearly not the same.

Agnosticism goes to lack of ability to know the existence of gods and atheism goes to not holding the belief in gods.

He evidently did not share the other's agnosticism, approaching though not quite reaching atheism.1 (The Origin did end with a positive reference to the Creator.)

Agnosticism pretty much means, «We don't know and we're fine with it.».

agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive.

You seem confused on agnosticism, but that's not the point.

Agnosticism is not a position between atheist and theism.

Similarly, agnosticism is not a place between theism and atheism, it is the position that we can not or do not know that gods exist.

His point was not to say that you must choose Christianity or Empirical Humanism — rather that people should choose to believe in something: either a traditional religion that puts upon you a set of expectations to meet or a rejection of divinity that gives you a form of Atheism / Agnosticism that holds to reason as a higher truth.

But, agnosticism is not an alternative to atheism or deism, it simply refers to a belief about «proof» rather than a belief about «existence.»

Also I would point out «atheism» and «agnosticism» are not mutually exclusive.

Some might claim this is agnosticism but it is not as an agnostic believes there may or may not be God's but we have no way of verifying it so they see no reason to commit.

Agnosticism is really the best position to hold, because we truly don't know the real answers to any of these questions.

In the face of this kind of Christian agnosticism, one can not speak of absolute divine truths, because no divine truths exist, only opinions.

============== @momoya «Agnosticism is NOT «atheism light.».»

It is highly significant that these questions come not from one committed to agnosticism, but from a Christian exegete.

Anything less is agnosticism which is not atheism.

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 and Atheism are not exclusionary.

Personally, I think the only truly honest position is «I don't know for sure, and I say so» - agnosticism.