Vinterland

I know that very well.Apparently you agree with Kenneth's statements:
"So if I consider the claims of each religion on a case by case basis, and test them for contradictions (in their bibles, prophecies, and teachings), historical inaccuracies, and utter falsities, then the uncovering of a certain religion's errors and falsehoods itself constitutes evidence that that religion is as false as the gods it purports to exist? This is a reasonable proposition."

If yes, then I'll have answered you as well in my response to Kenneth.
Kenneth,
Say if you've gone to Mount Olympus looking for Zeus and did not find him sitting in his great chair. You turned over every rock and boulder, searched every crevice to find the king of gods...doing all this while Zeus laughs at you from above. Zeus, fairies, God; it doesn't matter one bit how you define God, all can only be known to exist as "supernatural" and any specific qualites and condition of a god (ie: all loving, resides in our hearts/inside an active volcano) said by anyone person concerning the "supernatural" is pretty much random.

As an agnostic you can't believe that your "proven" predictions based on religious statements or doctrine are based on the actual Deity. Can you prove Christianity or similar religions accurately describe the gods in their respective texts? Maybe God is a maelvolent being that divinely inspired all of them, bestowing upon them all differing accounts to explain the world so that It may enjoy seeing them at war with each other. Go ahead and make predictions, scientists have "disproved" the most literal interpretation of Bible that describes an earth made about 6,000 years ago, but in regards to the metaphysical it could still be true. With something as arbitrary as God and "the supernatural" it's a more or less a waste of time, imo (for me at least) to bother thinking about. Anything can be true when you some Pan-guy claiming their god is trying to gather consciousness in this universe so it can become One again; you just can't bother with that crap unless you want a headache because that's the nature of faith and they're up to their assholes in it. It also doesn't matter that their claims are more rational, it still cannot be proven or disproved for now. I have one more thing to add that may be the most important: when I add proven and disproved in quotations I mean that for something to be objective (defined as dealing with truth), you must have all the evidence to form an objective argument. I cannot support arguments that claim to disprove specific gods because they may be missing data. For something to qualify as objective you have got to have all the data. Do you?


Vinter

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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.”