Sentences with phrase «term agnostic»

Consider the term agnostic atheist — someone who doesn't think there is a God, but can't (and doesn't need to) prove it.

But keep in mind that many who use the label atheists are essentially the same as what you term an agnostic.

Right, so that in the way you use the term agnostic theist it is to say that that it refelcts your belief about someone being skeptical about those who wrote scripture have any special knowledge of God.

Why use the term agnostic?

You use the term agnostic... do you have the slightest idea as to what the word means?

So the term agnostic or «Not Knowing» describes for me the process of giving up the need to know, so that I can take in the wholeness of that moment of awareness.

I am using the terms agnostic and atheism in the classical / common sense, which is how PJ was using them in your quote.

Not exact matches

In short, I really am completely agnostic about the short term direction of the market.

Short term, I am completely agnostic about market action.

First, the method is agnostic as to what the money is spent on, so money spent cleaning up an oil spill looks remarkably similar to money spent building a new hospital or school in terms of economic impact.

In Response to comments regarding me as an agnostic I believe you to be incorrect and misusing the term «Agnosticagnostic I believe you to be incorrect and misusing the term «AgnosticAgnostic».

Since you seem to be mixed up about what Agnostic / Gnostic and Atheist / Theist mean I will repeat so you don't confuse those terms again.

Bitter Agnostic is a much more appropriate term.

Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.

As it turns out, the category of U.S. adults who do not believe in the divine is much larger than the category of those who describe themselves as either atheists or agnostics (likely because of the stigma associated with these terms).

And I can tell you from over a decade of counseling experience that I have found FAR more «self - loathing» (as I believe you are using that term) among atheists and agnostics than among believers of any faith.

It is my respect for other Christians that I don't use the same term to describe myself, though I wouldn't call myself Agnostic or Atheist by the same standard.

For example, the author divided his interviewees in terms of their God - concepts, ranging from atheist - agnostic to orthodox.

It is used by athiest and agnostic as a term for a «bad place» just as saying «god or heaven help us» is just a saying for many of us.

And as far as Einstein, he was agnostic, and used the term «god» very loosely so to say he was a believer is incorrect.

Half of all agnostics actually believe in God, at least in terms of a universal force or Primal Origin, perhaps «within.»

Notice that the terms «atheist» and «agnostic», by these definitions, are not mutually exclusive.

Atheist - turned - agnostic astronomer Fred Hoyle, who coined the term «Big Bang,» famously stated, «A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.»

The founders of AA way back in the 1930s realized that many people have difficulities with the concept of God, so they had the foresight to use the term Higher Power and also the original Big Book of AA has a whole chapter on athiests and agnostics.

I guess you and others choose the less demonized term of agnostic since you'd less likey to get your tires slashed or lose your job and friends or come to bodily harm.

Anyway, the misuse of the terms «atheist» and «agnostic» in this conversation thread demonstrate a verbal imprecision that contributes to huge amounts of misunderstanding with regard to theological perspectives.

As Robert Wright (an agnostic, with connections to the JTF) pointed it out very clear: «New Atheists» main short - term goal wasn't to turn believers into atheists, it was to turn atheists into New Atheists — fellow fire - breathing preachers of the anti-gospel.

You might want to check your definitions also on the terms Atheist and Agnostic.

I get what you are saying with the atheist / thieist and gnostic / agnostic terms and I think I woudn't be in any disagreement with the ideas you are convering.

I genuiniely am interested, and this is not a criticism, but can you explain the term «theistic agnostic» in the way your intened usage of it it?

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»

At a day conference on the «Multi-verse» at Emmanuelle College Cambridge, the Cape Town Professor George Ellis, as agnostic bio-chemist from South Africa, suggested that the theory of multiple, even infinite, universes, of which our finely tuned one is just one, might be useful as an explanatory tool but not in terms of contributing to the theistic debate.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

Most atheists are also agnostics because the terms are not mutually exclusive.

Most atheists / agnostics / humanists try to define God's moral code in their terms, in essence, to re-write the book of life to suit their agenda, when in fact, only one agenda counts - GOD»S.

I agree that «Agnostic» would have been the better term here, because Agnostics (and Deists) generally deny the god of Christianity not because they don't like how Christ described him, but rather how Christ's «followers» have portrayed him.

The terms atheist and agnostic are not mutually exclusive.

The particular brand of scientific humanism which affects so much of our thinking is either agnostic, in the less narrow sense of that term, or rigidly atheistic.

I may not be using the terms as others might, but for me, the agnostic part means I don't know if a higher being exists, maybe have existed but is not present now and here, or perhaps other possibilities.

If you're willing to include people who aren't strict atheists, but closer to agnostics or what fits into now - trendy term «nones», you have such conservative notables as Charles Krauthammer and George Will.

«We found that the agnostic model predicts roughly $ 1.30 in near - term GDP growth for each $ 1 in spending,» Traum says.

Very open minded guy, I am Agnostic as well as anti religious for lake of a better term, if you are evangelic in any way or are a slave to a...

The terms atheist, agnostic and theist do not lie on a single dimensional line as most people wrongly think.

\ n \ nSlide 10 - students are to place the terms atheist, theist and agnostic on the belief line and then say where they are and why.

Whether you are an indie start - up developing an ebook agnostic HTML5 reader or a major company, it is an easier system to invest in for the long - term.

Maintains a long - term investment horizon and is agnostic to index constituents and sector weights

Long - term investors with no view on interest rates (call them fixed - income agnostics) may find Vanguard Canadian Aggregate Bond Index ETF (VAB) appealing.

Edwards replied, «the IGDA was created for sharing knowledge that is platform - agnostic — regarding how to do the craft, how to get better at what you do, crunch time issues... etc.» Finally, the moderator Gunnar Lott raised the concern of how project budgets are escalating, and how top - selling games are not consistent in terms of quality — «is the industry reaching a point where it's crashing?»

I'm agnostic (in part because my current game as Scotland sidesteps the continental European mess altogether), both in terms of which game I'd rather play, and which game represents better design.

I'm agnostic because it really just doesn't matter, the way I see the near term playing out.