Agnostic NOT Atheist
My blogs
| Location | United States |
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| Introduction | What ARE you? Are you this kind of an ‘ist or that kind of ‘ist? Warning! You're about to be assigned a label, accept it, and the others will mark you for elimination! Why? This ‘ist hates that ‘ist, the lines have been drawn, and the cannons are loaded, and here you sit sad and confused looking over tomorrow's bloody battlefield. Enter Thomas Huxley... “When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; Christian or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure they had attained a certain "gnosis,"–had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. And, with Hume and Kant on my side, I could not think myself presumptuous in holding fast by that opinion.” |
| Interests | The defense of Historical Agnosticism. |