How Much of a Theist or Atheist are You?

[Mac1958]

I don't understand how a person can claim to "know", one way or the other.

There can be no 100%. No God believer will be truthful if they say they never have questioned. But many athiest swill tell they know they are 100% certain.

Well, it's an ideology, one way or the other. And part of being an ideologue is literally talking yourself into something you'd otherwise know isn't true.
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[Mudda]

4. Pure agnostic. It's the thinking person's position.

Agnostic is derived from the word ignorant.
So no, while agnostic is about thinking, a thinking person must seek the truth and find it.

Everyone seeks the truth, agnostics simply acknowledge that we haven't found it yet.

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

 

[Weatherman2020]

4. Pure agnostic. It's the thinking person's position.

Agnostic is derived from the word ignorant.
So no, while agnostic is about thinking, a thinking person must seek the truth and find it.

Everyone seeks the truth, agnostics simply acknowledge that we haven't found it yet.

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

I never said athiests are right. I said they think they have no possibility in their thought process that maybe they are wrong.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I don't understand how a person can claim to "know", one way or the other.

There can be no 100%. No God believer will be truthful if they say they never have questioned. But many athiest swill tell they know they are 100% certain.

Well, it's an ideology, one way or the other. And part of being an ideologue is literally talking yourself into something you'd otherwise know isn't true.
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I'm an engineer, it got down to statistical probabilities using the evidence available. And when you get to 99.99999998% you go with it, no matter how uncomfortable the answer is.

 

[Mudda]

4. Pure agnostic. It's the thinking person's position.

Agnostic is derived from the word ignorant.
So no, while agnostic is about thinking, a thinking person must seek the truth and find it.

Everyone seeks the truth, agnostics simply acknowledge that we haven't found it yet.

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

I never said athiests are right. I said they think they have no possibility in their thought process that maybe they are wrong.

ag-nos-tic, not atheist.

 

[Mac1958]

I don't understand how a person can claim to "know", one way or the other.

There can be no 100%. No God believer will be truthful if they say they never have questioned. But many athiest swill tell they know they are 100% certain.

Well, it's an ideology, one way or the other. And part of being an ideologue is literally talking yourself into something you'd otherwise know isn't true.
.

I'm an engineer, it got down to statistical probabilities using the evidence available. And when you get to 99.99999998% you go with it, no matter how uncomfortable the answer is.

My youngest daughter is in college right now, majoring in engineering/biomedical engineering.

When we visited her there, she was talking about how finding seats in class is different than in high school:

"Nobody makes fun of you because you want to sit in the front row. We ALL want to sit in the front row!"


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[Weatherman2020]

Agnostic is derived from the word ignorant.
So no, while agnostic is about thinking, a thinking person must seek the truth and find it.

Everyone seeks the truth, agnostics simply acknowledge that we haven't found it yet.

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

I never said athiests are right. I said they think they have no possibility in their thought process that maybe they are wrong.

ag-nos-tic, not atheist.

An agnostic is someone too lazy to make up their mind in the most important issue in their lives.

 

[Mudda]

Everyone seeks the truth, agnostics simply acknowledge that we haven't found it yet.

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

I never said athiests are right. I said they think they have no possibility in their thought process that maybe they are wrong.

ag-nos-tic, not atheist.

An agnostic is someone to lazy to make up their mind in the most important issue in their lives.

Show me some real proof to tilt me one way or the other and I'll stop being lazy.

 

[Pogo]

Everyone seeks the truth, agnostics simply acknowledge that we haven't found it yet.

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

I never said athiests are right. I said they think they have no possibility in their thought process that maybe they are wrong.

ag-nos-tic, not atheist.

An agnostic is someone to lazy to make up their mind in the most important issue in their lives.

On the contrary, an agnostic is at the least one who sees the folly in binary thinking.

 

[cnm]

Well, it's an ideology, one way or the other.

I didn't realise lack of knowledge was an ideology.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

I never said athiests are right. I said they think they have no possibility in their thought process that maybe they are wrong.

ag-nos-tic, not atheist.

An agnostic is someone to lazy to make up their mind in the most important issue in their lives.

On the contrary, an agnostic is at the least one who sees the folly in binary thinking.

The existence of God is a binary issue. It's a yes/no issue.
And the most important issue every person has in their lives.

 

[cnm]

An agnostic is someone to lazy to make up their mind in the most important issue in their lives.

Or someone who realises, unlike certain engineers, that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

 

[yiostheoy]

4. Pure agnostic. It's the thinking person's position.

Means you have simply made Science your religion.

You have ignored Religion and you are ignorant of Philosophy.

So you are not completely superstitious but not completely smart either.

 

[Mac1958]

Well, it's an ideology, one way or the other.

I didn't realise lack of knowledge was an ideology.

I meant claiming to know for sure, one way or the other. Religiosity or atheism.
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[Weatherman2020]

Please. 12% think Elvis is alive, people think we never walked on the moon and half of America thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

You are correct to infer that only agnostics are right. Why? What did you choose?

I never said athiests are right. I said they think they have no possibility in their thought process that maybe they are wrong.

ag-nos-tic, not atheist.

An agnostic is someone to lazy to make up their mind in the most important issue in their lives.

Show me some real proof to tilt me one way or the other and I'll stop being lazy.

I said the decision must be made upon available evidence. It's like gravity. All the available evidence is there and you can make a decision if it exists or not.

 

[yiostheoy]

The caveat with this scale is, which god is it that the person is professing belief in.

A Creator.

Your azz has been miraculously saved so many times Hossfly that you probably have seen angels and leprechans too.

 

[yiostheoy]

Well, it's an ideology, one way or the other.

I didn't realise lack of knowledge was an ideology.

I meant claiming to know for sure, one way or the other. Religiosity or atheism.
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Some people probably know for sure one way or the other, but not many.

 

[Mousterian]

One may say that 'God' made the Universe, but the idea that 'God' is an old male human with magical powers is no more than a fairytale.

 

[yiostheoy]

The caveat with this scale is, which god is it that the person is professing belief in.

A Creator.

This is "Deist" actually Hossfly .

The O/P has never heard of Deist.

 

[yiostheoy]

Strong theist. I don't think it makes sense to walk into a house and make the claim that there was no builder, citing the fact that you never met them as evidence.

This is also Deist.