agnosticism

We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.He asked me: __o you pray?___o.___o you beseech God to forgive your trespasses?___o.___o you not thank God for his bounty?___o.___o you not depend on God's support?___o.__nd with this his puzzlement increased until he was assured that my fate lies in hell indeed.

He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.

The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a neutral position of not knowing, we can't move away from it until we have proof or evidence either way.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.

The more I learn, the less I know.

Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason.

One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it simply means you don__ believe it to be the case _ a point that should not be hard to understand with the complete lack of physical evidence that points to the existence of such a being or beings. Even if you__e 51 percent sure that there is no magical man in the sky, you are an atheist; and admitting that is the first half of the battle.

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of the culture, and demands respect.

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.