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droidamus2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-09 08:28 AM
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29. Didn't have the option I would have picked
so I chose Agnostic even though I usually say Agnostic with atheistic leaning. I forget who posited the idea, though I think I read it in this group somewhere, but I think along the following lines. That if absolute faith/belief is on one end of the line and absolute disbelief/non-faith is on the other that agnostic is not necessarily in the middle. One is the idea of belief or faith where Agnosticism deals with knowledge and the ability to acquire knowledge. As an agnostic I acknowledge the fact that I don't think we can 'prove' god one way or the other. When asked do I personally 'believe' there is a god I say no I don't. Conversely I think you could be a person of faith and still agnostically (is that a word?) acknowledge that there is no way to prove your position that there is a god.
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