Agnostics, surprised by God. How many can you name?
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"Many"..."Most of them"....these are empty phrases...almost everyone knows that....
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I was baptized as a Christian, and I believed in God during my younger childhood years. But my family has never gone to church since I can remember, and religion now is not at all a part of my life. I don't believe in any religion anymore. I rarely even think or wonder about God, or whether or not there even is one. I might consider myself agnostic, but even that could be going too far because I really have no feelings about religion at all.
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Gnostic means you're skeptical but with a heavy lean towards believing.  Agnostic means your skeptical but with a heavy lean towards atheism.\n\nBtw that guy who said agnostics don't try to learn anything, that's a load of BS.  I'm pretty much agnostic and I continually improve my knowledge.
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I think it would be more appropriate to call that person an agnostic, one who is not certain that God exists but is open to the moral code of the faith.  Tradition, theology, ideas and behavior are different things.  One may find value in one but not another.
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An athiest does not believe that there are, wre, or ever will be any god or gods, deities, higher powers or anything like that.\n\nAn Agnostic accepts that there MIGHT be something beyone ourselves, but that it is not possible to know or understand anything about what the nature of that may be...
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I was raised in a Christian home but as I grew into adulthood I began to have doubts.  I think some events in vietnam made me question a lot.  Then going to school afterward I began to explore other philosopies eventually labeling myself an agnostic.  However I always remained curious and would on occasion read the Bible as well as other philosophy books.  One night about twenty years ago I was reading the Bible and had just started a new chapter and as I read it was like I could hear the words audibly...and in an instant..I believed.  I knew it was true like never before.  I didn't hope it was true.  I didn't wish it was true.  It wasn't a matter of faith for me then.  I knew it was true as certainly as I am sure that I exist.  I never had an experience like that before or since.  well..i guess that's religous but it's the most spiritual thing that's ever happened to me...kinda made me feel strange.
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Today, I think that most, if not all, organized religions are off the mark a bit.  To rephrase, while I am struggling with the notion of God, I know that I do not believe in the God that Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Bahai's belive in.  Today, I believe that if there is a God, that he/she/it pressed the "start button" and left us to work out the rest for ourselves.
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I don't care to define them. I just know that they're out there and I'm thankful for the good they they may do for me.\n\nBeing agnostic, I don't think it's possible to know. I don't think anyone can know, since there is and will never be any evidence of anything, only faith. And I really don't think faith is good enough to hold such strong, rigid beliefs over. But something had to have created all of this, and something must account for there being religion almost every known culture, even those that have been in isolation.
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God bless...I'm so glad you keep being so curious about God, keep it up and someday you may finally come to him and believe....God bless
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An atheist does not believe in God.\nAn agnostic assumes that there is not enough evidence in either direction to make a clear decision on believing or not.\n\nAgnosticism can also be defined in these ways:\n\nThe view that the existence of any god is unknown at present. \nThe view that any god's existence is unknowable. \nThe view that theism is incoherent (see ignosticism.)
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Ok, before I say anything, I'll admit I am a believer.  And God works in mysterious ways, so I wouldn't be suprised.  I bet it was him.
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Without a shred of proof?  There is MUCH more proof that there is a God than you would imagine.  The evidence is overwhelming, actually.  I tell you what, if you can convince me that it is more logical to believe there is no God than that He exists, I'll change my beliefs.  Are you willing to accept the same challenge?
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God makes Herself known to each person individually.  If this hasn't happened for you (and you'll know when it happens) then you're an Atheist/Agnostic.  You're one of the chosen people to have little to no regard for religious dogma and to be like all the great Atheist thinkers of history.
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I am not an atheist, but I know some people who are. It seems to me that they reject the definition of God that has been given by the standard, traditional religions.  Perhaps a person will decide to proclaim herself to be an atheist because she feels that the modern English term "God" has been so corrupted by the ideas of closed-minded church people that the concept no longer contains any value. And I would just about have to agree with that. If I mention the idea of God as a universal life-force or as the interpersonal spirit of goodness and compassion to one of my atheist friends, they might agree with that, but still the name "God" has a disagreeable connotation to them.\nReligious language is full of metaphor. Some of the most simple, basic terms of religion are such large, sweeping, all-encompassing concepts that it takes many pages of erudition to even explain what we mean when we say the name "God".\nWhen you say "God", you are implying a whole big set of ideas. Atheists are often people who simply cannot agree with some of the ideas that they have heard being attached to that name.
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I'm a Christian. Also I might be mistaken but you cant be agnostic and atheist. agnostic is not sure God exists. Atheist means you are sure that God doesn't exist.
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Sounds good, an atheist is someone that doesn't believe in God, has nothing to do with religion. Your outlook on God is a refreshing change from the usual dyed-in-the-wool pew sitter.
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I am a southern Baptist and I live in the south now. I lived in California most of my life and I actually never realized that so many don't believe in God. It tells us in God's Holy Bible this will be the case but I never actually was around that many who didn't believe. I find it absolutely amazing that so many are so ignorant. I am so very happy to be one of the few who believe and not the other way around. I feel sorry for those who refuse to listen and turn a deaf ear to God's message to us all.