Comments on New Humanist Blog: Agnostics ponder atheist invitation

The great schism is healed

2009-10-28T05:02:51.782Z

The great schism is healed

How about us faitheists? When will the RA extend a...

2009-10-27T23:01:02.057Z

How about us faitheists? When will the RA extend an olive branch to us accommodationists? :)

Ha, the fence with a sit built-in! As an Agnostic ...

2009-10-27T14:13:26.199Z

Ha, the fence with a sit built-in! As an Agnostic I only sit on that seat when asked about the possibility of gods' existence... the rest of day I play on the Atheist side of the garden with my FELLOW Atheists, Brights, Naturalists, Freethinkers, Skeptics, Non-believers, Anti-theists, Apatheists, Ignostics, Non-theists, Post-theists and the like!

Well as for not being able to disprove a negative ...

2009-10-27T10:51:34.530Z

Well as for not being able to disprove a negative (can’t disprove Nessie doesn’t exist) well Bertrand Russell dealt with that in his invisible celestial teapot argument. You can’t prove a negative, that doesn’t meant that because you can disprove something that it means it exist. Still, agnostics and athiests are heading the same way which is a good thing I would have thought.

Perhaps if they offered a free fence with seat att...

2009-10-27T08:42:52.336Z

Perhaps if they offered a free fence with seat attachment when you join. I'm sure that would work wonders on recruitment ;)

I don't know what's my label. The categories are n...

2009-10-27T01:56:58.538Z

I don't know what's my label. The categories are not so clear, or may be I don't pay to much attention to something in which I don't believe, to something which doesn´t affect my life, to someone who just doesn't seem to care for the world. I don't believe, but maybe there are gods, maybe the gods are a bit more lazy than we'd usually expect... With gods or without them I simply don't believe, although technically the possibility still exists. To me it doesn't matter to be with atheists, and to learn from them, since practically I'm atheist, and me too I behave atheistically. I think Atheists and Agnostics should be together, so I agree with the proposition.
Thanks Anonymous for your explanation, but I think an Agnostic, when asked whether is there a possibility for gods to exist, would answer I don't know instead of Yes.

[edit] the questions for agnostic is, 1) do you b...

2009-10-27T01:40:44.136Z

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the questions for agnostic is,
1) do you believe in the posibility of a god? yes = agnostic or religious, no = atheist

2) do you believe in god? yes = religious, no = agnostic or atheist

so if you answer yes to the first and no to the second you are agnostic, no to both you are an atheist and yes to both you are religious

the questions for agnostic is, do you believe in t...

2009-10-27T01:36:38.401Z

the questions for agnostic is, do you believe in the posibility of a god? yes = agnostic, no = atheist

do you believe in god? yes = religious, no = agnostic or atheist

Me, I´m both. I´m an agnostic, because the nonex...

2009-10-26T22:28:49.296Z

Me, I´m both.

I´m an agnostic, because the nonexistence of a god is unproveable (as is then nonexistence of Nessie). So there has to be a tiny crack left open in that door. If not, it becomes a dogma. And I don´t like those.

On the other hand I firmly believe there is no god. So I´m an atheist too.

or at least he/she/it/they do/doesn't show up to s...

2009-10-26T20:00:00.478Z

or at least he/she/it/they do/doesn't show up to say anything in his/her/its/their defence.
Wow that's complicated.

I'm technically agnostic, but I behave as an athei...

2009-10-26T19:57:59.365Z

I'm technically agnostic, but I behave as an atheist. I don't find that too hard to swallow since in my mind I understand they answer two different questions:
• Does God exist? I don't know (agnostic)
• Do you believe in he/she/it/they? Nope (atheist).

So I guess this is good news, really good. I think we can't be separated by something which doesn't even happen to exist.

LOL

2009-10-26T19:53:39.481Z

LOL

I am uncertain if I am agnostic or atheist. Am I...

2009-10-26T19:24:23.390Z

I am uncertain if I am agnostic or atheist.

Am I invited too?

I think I want to be in a religion with Anonymous....

2009-10-26T18:38:06.364Z

I think I want to be in a religion with Anonymous.

Well, I personally welcome the news. I think that,...

2009-10-26T18:33:50.268Z

Well, I personally welcome the news. I think that, like many agnostics, it's good to keep your options open and the more options there are the better.
People throw scorn at uncertainty and yet it's given us microchips, flash memory, and that bubbly feeling in the pit of your stomach.
I think the option to initially forgo the infallibility of Richard Dawkins is a boon for agnostics everywhere because, quite frankly, when he gets going it's like watching a sadistic school boy pull the legs off a daddy-long-legs.