New School Prayer

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

To me, and this isn't meant to insult anyone, I find atheism as frustrating as fundamentalist religion. Both are saying they know the definite answer to something. But neither has proof. So, as an agnostic, I say, "I don't know. No one knows. We'll find out (maybe) when we're dead." And move on with life.

I'm an atheist in the sense that I have seen absolutely no reason to even begin suspecting a god exists and therefore live my life as if this is true.

But I'll readily admit that I could be wrong but that I see no reason to change my views just because, without any concrete evidence indicating so, I might be wrong.

So, while you could technically say this is agnosticism, I would then have to say I am similarly agnostic about whether there are invisible phase-shifted evil robots in my bedroom closet just waiting for me to go to sleep tonight so that they could kill me.

I could be wrong that they aren't there but lacking any positive reason to believe it I'm not going to be putting a padlock on that door. So there really is no functional difference between atheism and my behavior.