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Originally Posted by SirArthur  Gnosis (From the Greek gnosis, to know): attribute of those who claim to know the truth about God and Divinity.
Agnosticism (-a, contrary of Gnosis): those who claim there's no way to proof or disproof or to understand deities. |
In general, I find that agnosticism applied to the god concept is untenable. Agnostics claim that they don't know enough about god to suspend disbelief in god. If you can't know that a god can't exist, because you have no knowledge of god, then you can't know that a god might exists.
I find that the word
god suffers from theological noncognitivism. One must cognitively define god before one can make a claim on belief. What sort of god are you basing your agnosticism on? Thor, Artemis, the christian god, Aakuluujjusi, Cernunnus, etc.
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The most simple description however to describe an Agnostic is "anti-Dogmatic" or skeptical.
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Dogma: To accept a thing, without any solid evidence, as an incontestable truth.
Agnostics differs then to religious people because those ones believes and accepts as a Dogma the claimed miracles/supernatural stuff of their religion and its books.
Agnostics differs also from Atheists, because Atheists also believes Dogmatically that there's no God.
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According to your definitions of dogma and atheism, an atheist is someone who lacks a belief in god based on insubstantial evidence. I do not agree. Could you please describe god and the evidence for belief?