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[quote=Anonymous]I am agnostic.  We cannot have certainty about something entirely outside the realm of experience or scientific inquiry.  And that inability to reach certainty goes both ways -- the religious and the atheists.

I am usually frustrated by both sides.  Most religious people I know are smug about it and espouse their faith as certainty and kind of view nonbelievers as not having been "touched."  This infuriates me.

On the flip side, though, most atheists are pretty smug as well, and they declare with certainty that there is no higher power or being and that when we die, we die.  How the hell do they know what happens when we die?

So both sides are ridiculous.  I don't think it's possible for humans to know what lies beyond death.  We don't fully understand the human brain.  Science hasn't been able to conclusively ascertain when a fetus actually starts feeling and thinking.  It seems to me that this is because we don't know how that energy that animates the body works and what happens to it when the body dies.

Why can't we just leave it a mystery and admit we don't know and deal with the here and now?

So I get frustrated with atheists and religious people alike.  They all seem sort of arrogant in their certainty about things that even science won't touch.[/quote]

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