Peh said:
Good, arf. We think the same, arf. Do you agree with me in saying that, in regard to theism/atheism and agnosticism, one bothers with the question of believing/not believing and the other one with the question of having knowledge about a specific something, arf? |
Not completely. I think both believing and knowing are both at play here. A believer believes in God and has religious knowledge (theological knowledge). An atheist doesn't believe in God and will most likely reject religious knowledge. An agnost will say there is no way to know if God exists (knowledge). So far we're on the same page.
But here is the contentious issue, and this is were definitions don't hand us anything tangible. An agnost might not believe in God, but because he doesn't know, he's uncertain. He might think there is a God, but again, he doesn't really claim to know there is a God or not. But an agnost might just as well hold a middle ground, where he doesn't think it's possible to know if there is a God and where he doesn't believe strongly one way or the other. This might be an apathic position (not wanting to bother) or a strong feeling (believeing he doesn't know what to believe).
