
Hello all! I'm not sure if I fit into the strict definition of Huxly's agnotistic but because I've no proof about my views of a God or not, I this is the spot.
Looking forward to the discussions here.
About me: mostly faded Christian. Into metaphysics (former Wayne Dyer reader/listener). Started my slide/shift with (of all things) Conversations with God by Neal Donald Walsh.
Biggest change came with "The Davinci Code" and its line: "The Bible did not arrive by fax from God." and then Bart Ehrman's Truth and Fiction Behind the Davinci Code. He also did, Misquoting Jesus, which really put the slam on the Bible as the word of God.
Then came the mother/father of all Atheists, Richard Dawkins, who spoke so much common sense that my view of God, is so far reduced from what it was that I no longer have a sense of any caring or concern of this God.
Where I stand today: I believe (but do no not truly know) that there is a creative source but that it is now relegated to starting a chain reaction of events which it has no power or concern to intervene and change.
It's like starting a ripple and then letting that ripple go and whatever happens, happens. It is the only way for me to frame the idea of the tremendous suffering that continues in this world. There is no All Powerful and All Loving God who would let suffering happen and to let evil flourish the way it does.
And to say "oh it's beyond our understanding" is just too frelling convenient.
I could go on but now you see where I am at on my path.