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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agnostic actually means that you don't believe it is possible to know if there is a god or not.  So it actually isn't a belief or nonbelief.  It's a position on whether it's possible for humans to know if there is a divine power.

But a lot of people don't seem to understand that.

Atheist is that you don't believe a god or gods exist.  Period.  Not that you don't think it's possible to know one way or another.

Agnostics don't think it's possible to know with any kind of certainty one way or another.  They also don't believe it's a provable/disprovable kind of thing.  And I agree.

That's why agnostics tend to remove themselves from the vicious debates between Christians and atheists.  It's a pointless exercise.[/quote]

So then would you say you're also agnostic on the existence of Santa Claus?[/quote]

Good question! Different PP, agnostic, here.

I believe there's no Santa Claus. As I believe there is no god as defined/ developed by any religion. But I believe there may be some other entity, conscious or not, that influences events in ways we don't, perhaps can't, understand. I know of no way to prove or disprove the existence of such "god" and in any way that is irrelevant to my ethics as a human being.[/quote]

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