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[–] froh42@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I was an agnostic for a very long time.

My main view of things - I couldn't know if there was a god or if there wasn't. But all that ultimate judgement shit never made any sense for me. If you're just behaving decently because of fear of ultimate judgment, then you're not a decent person. Ok if god would want me not to be an asshole, I'd need to be that out of my free will. And if a god demanded adherence to some random rules out of the blue - that god wouldn't have a moral compass and I wouldn't want to have to do anything with them in my life, being smitten down at the end would have been a consequence for me anyways.

I just want to be no asshole. So the question of there's a god or not. I don't care. God is irrelevant.

Thus: agnostic

I started staying I'm an atheist somw time ago, as that's just quicker and I can go by without explaining.

Still - if there's a god around, which is possible but improbable - I'm making sure I make fucking good use of the free will they gave me.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The issue I had with calling myself "agnostic" is that most Christians think of it as "undecided" (which it isn't), so they'll try to convert you. If you tell them you're an atheist, they're more likely to leave you alone (in my experience).

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Most Christians think athiests just hate god. Basing your stance around irrational people is, itself, irrational.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I don't. I'm still an agnostic. I just don't tell people that if I think they won't understand and it isn't worth the time explaining it to them.