@StupidBoy phil,
StupidBoy wrote:Since I cannot be 100% certain in my belief as to whether or not there is one or more deities, I would have to qualify myself as an agnostic, technically. Just like most theists have some doubt about their beliefs.
Good point and well put.
We can doubt anything; everything! Indeed, I believe there's almost nothing we can be 100% certain about. But I know what I believe... and I like to keep it flexible - giving me the opportunity to change as evidence and need tide or ebb. It's an uphill battle for me since I find pride often enters in... waving its arms madly against anything that runs contrary to my ego (I don't think I'm alone in this, either).
But answering this question ("What do I believe?") is very,
very important. It embarks one on a journey to find themselves. Always there is prejudice, pride, skewed facts, emotions and other factors that float in the soup of human thought. Plowing through this to
how do I really feel?, I think, is extremely important. What answer one comes to is almost irrelevant
I must admit to a bias here: I have this inkling that many declare themselves agnostic out of convenience; declaring, "I can't know". Yet even these - the simplest of terms - speak not to knowledge on iota. Its only when one peels back the layers of self-deception and embark on an honest episode of
critical self-inquiry can they even begin to know themselves; and knowing 'how I feel' gives invaluable insight to 'what I believe'.
Thanks - nice response there.
