Honestly, “it’s easier than explaining” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here 😅
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I believe it's impossible to prove the existence of two gods.
I'm a diagnostic.
I don't drink tea.
I'm an atheaist
May your water always be salted
Ramen
I mean you go girl more power to ya but it definitely isn't easier to explain pastafarianism than agnosticism to normies. Noone except programmers and other too online people even know it exists (yes i am also a terminally online freak relax peeps, real recognize real)
That's the neat part - you don't have to explain anything. You just assert the truthfulness of your religion and act offended when people point out how ridiculous it is.
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Just show them the graph. Can't argue with hard data.
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"I'm not religious"
Can't say I've ever had to explain anything more than that.
i prefer "i'm not superstitious", because that's what all religions are
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Sithrak is the only one true god.
You can just call yourself an atheist. Hell, if you call yourself a pastafarian you are basically an anti-theist.
I'm anti-theist and I want to slay all gods.
Why agnostic? Like... If there's no proof, why believe in the existence of a deity at all?
For me personally, atheism is saying 'there is nothing more to the universe or reality, what you see is what you get' which is extremely pretentious. Agnosticism is admitting to the possibility that there's something going on here, but we don't know and would likely be incapable of understanding what it is.
Atheism: I don't believe in the existence of god(s)
Agnosticism: I haven't seen any proof for god thus can't believe in one
It's the same thing really, but without the "negative" connotations usually attributed to atheism or atheists. "See, I'm not really an atheist but agnostic. It means I'm not to be expelled from this community as a heretic"
It’s the same thing really, but without the “negative” connotations usually attributed to atheism or atheists. “See, I’m not really an atheist but agnostic. It means I’m not to be expelled from this community as a heretic”
This, basically. At least that's how I used it. As a kid living in the bible belt, admitting you were an atheist was, in their eyes, literally no different than being a cannibalistic devil worshipper. Agnostic was easier for them to swallow (albeit because odds are high that most of them didn't even know what it meant, and figured it was some sect of Christianity they were unfamiliar with).
When I got older, and escaped the institutional bigotry woven into nearly every facet of society down in the bible belt...the lovely place where our biology teacher also headed the bible club and refused to teach evolution yet somehow still had a job as a biology teacher in the public school system, as a small example...that was when I finally gained the confidence to self-describe as an atheist.
"See, I'm not really an atheist but agnostic. It means I'm not to be expelled from this community as a heretic"
I identity with this. When I was younger I identified as agnostic, as I saw it as a more socially acceptable option than atheism which allowed me to not have to pretend to be religious.
But I've identified as atheist for many years now. In my case by the time I did, everyone of significance in my life was nonreligious.
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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.
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It's not at all difficult to explain. "I don't believe in gods." Simple as that.
That’s atheism?
You either believe in god(s) or you don't. Orthogonally you might be sure of your beliefs or not.
Most self-described agnostics are agnostic atheists.
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