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Originally Posted by godlovesyou  ....... Why are you agnostic, depite all informations we have access today, to get answers and give the ability to come to a own faith , even if it is atheist faith ? |
Welcome godloves you,
Thank you for asking a question.....I think that is a good sign
Why am I an agnostic?
I was brought up Lutheran; luckily from my point of view the indoctrination was poor... I suspect our pastor drove more people to other faiths and reason than he would care to admit, (my Godmother was a rabid atheist). For me church was a cultural affair.
So how did I loose Christianity? The answer is not necessarily logical.... but here goes:
- God = the father, the son and the holy ghost...trinity. The holy ghost I could not get my mind around. It could be some thing that is in us all?
- Jesus I thought was an excellent role model, but I could not accept the details of the miracles as real. The conclusion I came to was, that although Jesus may have taught with parables, his important truth (story) was itself a parable.
- Although I love my father I could not see any godlike father wishing to be worshipped. If this does not sound like worship, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment", what does?
- Then if religious a god were a popularity contest then it certainly should not be Christian. This made me ask, if god exists, then which religion would he belong to? At this point it made no sense that god would favour any. So why follow a relegion? So became a tepid deist.
- I also questioned where my wish to be Christian came from; simply put, it was essentially from the society and company I was in. Spending time with areligious people helped me overcome these Christian societal pressures.
- Over the years studying science and testing hypotheses, looking for proof in the secular world, I tested these methods, at least in my mind, on the world of the spiritual. The conclusion I came to was I could see no evidence that god exists (at least none that worked for me). If god did exist I would not necessarily recognize the evidence. God could be knocking at my door now I could never know.... but I think it's kids trick or treating.
So I developed and grew into a proud agnostic.
Hope this helped