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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have discussions on this religion forum influenced you either away from or towards religion? If away, how? And if towards, which religion and why?
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Yes, I have always been agnostic; however this forum has really confirmed my beliefs that atheists are among the most insufferable of all beliefs.

The only more insufferable group I have come across are fundamentalist Muslims; who are truly brain dead.

Previously I considered switching from agnostic to atheist but both IRL and on the internet these people are so tedious and lack any understanding of evolution and history. No thanks. [/quote]

Any believers are braindead, hence why they still believe in myths and fairy tales. [/quote]

Way to underscore PP’s point

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” - Voltaire. 
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Aren't religious people certain that there is a God?[/quote]
PP is agnostic, so probably takes issue with certainty about God just as much as certainty about no God.[/quote]

Athiests are [u]not[/u] people who are [u]certain[/u] that there is no God.  They are people who [u]do not believe[/u] in God.  They are a-thiests, that is, Not theists.

Also, adult believers only believe in God and not any other supernatural beings, like fairies or Santa Claus.  Fairies and Santa are considered childish, but God is not.
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What's the difference between atheist and agnostic then?[/quote]

Bart Ehrman (A scholar who followed the evangelical-&gt;mainline-&gt;no religion pipeline) says that remembering the Greek root words is helpful.
theos=God / atheos=&gt; without God / atheism =&gt;without God [belief]
gnosis=knowledge / agnosti=&gt;without knowledge / agnosisticism=&gt;without knowledge [don't or can't know]

He says the distinction is helpful and important and that he is both an atheist and an agnostic.  He doesn't believe in God and he doesn't have concrete knowledge of God's existence or nonexistence.

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Those are his definitions. He doesn’t define them for anyone but himself. 
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If this means that all dictionary definitions are incorrect and/or personal, then I disagree.[/quote]

Bart doesn’t write dictionary definitions. He’s not an authority on language. 
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