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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-12-30 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2554 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2554 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Hobbit movies, Silmarillion]


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03.
[Ripper Street]


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04.
[Avengers]


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[Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Sherlock Holmes/Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Soukyuu no Fafner]


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09.
[Attack on Titan]


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[Goo Goo Dolls]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 050 secrets from Secret Submission Post #364.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Re: 'I'm agnostic'

(Anonymous) 2013-12-31 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, this is a random post.

Anyway, as an agnostic, every time in your post you said something along the lines that agnosticism is a 'stubborn refusal to define what you think God is', my basic response was 'duh'.

I am an agnostic because I believe that irrefutably stating that human knowledge is complete enough to know, absolutely, that there is no power that could be interpreted as divine, or spiritual, or supernatural in the universe is unsupportable. Just as unsupportable as, say, claiming that a book about which we have reams of historical and scientific evidence showing that much of it was either edited for political reasons or is untrue is not only a definitive description of God but also the only means of communication with such a being.

That doesn't mean spiritual agnostics don't have an idea of God or what God might be. It also doesn't mean that by saying that God in unknowable they are somehow 'negating' other interpretations of God. It just means they do no assert that their idea of God is definitively the only one.

I personally do not see how you as an atheist can respect* someone arbitrarily ascribing to an accepted version of God that you yourself describe as mythology more than an agnostic. For instance, as an agnostic leaning towards atheism our main quibble seems just to be over what we see as the extent of current human knowledge.

This is not to say I disrespect religious people. I'm actually of the school of thought that a lot of modern, Dawkins-fuelled atheist zealotry is throwing the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to rejecting religion and culture.