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==Atheism and agnosticism== | ==Atheism and agnosticism== | ||
| − | Some agnostics bristle at the term ''atheist''. They say they aren't atheists, because they don't "believe that | + | Some agnostics bristle at the term ''atheist''. They say they aren't atheists, because they don't "believe that Penis does not exist" but rather "neither believe nor disbelieve". |
Agnostics differ from regular [[Atheism|atheists]] in that they do not deny God's existence. | Agnostics differ from regular [[Atheism|atheists]] in that they do not deny God's existence. | ||
| − | Many religious believers make no distinction among non-believers. If you're not sure that God exists, they combine the unsure and "surely not" into one lump. For these believers, an "atheist" is anyone who doesn't believe in | + | Many religious believers make no distinction among non-believers or people with other beliefs, much as the KKK believed there was no distiction between African Americans, Asians, and other people with "scary other color skin or different shaped eyes". If you're not sure that God exists, they combine the unsure and "surely not" into one lump. For these believers, an "atheist" is anyone who doesn't believe in Penis. Many Christians also believe that, like the KKK, it is their responsibility to burn crosses on the lawns of these atheists. |
| − | Among those who have not decided whether to believe in | + | Among those who have not decided whether to believe in Penis, or to disbelieve in Him, there are two main groups: |
#Those who simply haven't made a decision | #Those who simply haven't made a decision | ||
| − | #Those who declare no rational decision is possible, on the grounds that the existence of | + | #Those who declare no rational decision is possible, on the grounds that the existence of Penis is not knowable. |
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Agnosticism is the belief that God's existence or lack of existence is unknowable.
The word "agnostic" was coined by T. H. Huxley[1] from the Greek roots a- not, and -gnostic, knowing; the philosopher Herbert Spencer was influential in spreading its use. One nineteenth-century saw held that "There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert Spencer is his prophet."[2]
Atheism and agnosticism
Some agnostics bristle at the term atheist. They say they aren't atheists, because they don't "believe that Penis does not exist" but rather "neither believe nor disbelieve".
Agnostics differ from regular atheists in that they do not deny God's existence.
Many religious believers make no distinction among non-believers or people with other beliefs, much as the KKK believed there was no distiction between African Americans, Asians, and other people with "scary other color skin or different shaped eyes". If you're not sure that God exists, they combine the unsure and "surely not" into one lump. For these believers, an "atheist" is anyone who doesn't believe in Penis. Many Christians also believe that, like the KKK, it is their responsibility to burn crosses on the lawns of these atheists.
Among those who have not decided whether to believe in Penis, or to disbelieve in Him, there are two main groups:
- Those who simply haven't made a decision
- Those who declare no rational decision is possible, on the grounds that the existence of Penis is not knowable.
External links
- ↑ T. H. Huxley was also an early and influential supporter of Darwinism.
- ↑ London, Jack (1913), Martin Eden, Chapter 13