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15082408 No.15082408 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any valid argument that could be made against agnosticism?

>> No.15082417

Honestly, I don't know

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Is there a name for this belief? Lit recs?

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>>15082408

>agnosticism
>you can never know because we don't know what the parameters of knowing are!

>> No.15082451

>>15082434

>Is there a name for this belief? Lit recs?

faggot fencesitter

>> No.15082461

>>15082408
Depends on whether agnosticism is meant as lack of absolute knowledge or not knowing one way or the other. I'm not absolutely sure God does not exist in the same way I am not absolutely sure Santa Claus doesn't exist but I'm not on the fence about either of those possibilities either. That counts as atheism to me but if you say agnosticism is not being absolutely sure then I guess I am agnostic. But in the same way I would be agnostic about the sun rising tomorrow

>> No.15082565

>>15082408
That chart makes no sense.

Agnosticism is that razor thin space one spends an afternoon on. A fence sitter, one does not stay forever. The less you like to read and learn the longer your stay up there will be. But that’s gonna be pretty hard to maintain for long. You either slip back to looking for a god in that agnostic-theist space, or you come across the mounting evidence that persuades you to “agnostic-atheism” and parts clearer.

Gnosticism leads one out of heretical Christianity and into original Christianity, but it has a slightly Spinozian taste to it now and one might find themselves heading towards agnostic tendencies. And why shouldn’t they, now knowing the sordid history of the church and its goofy canon’s construction?