Radio Frequency X
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So, here is something I always get caught up on. I am both religious and agnostic. I've never really understood the whole faith thing. Is there room for agnosticism in religion? Do we really need faith?
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I would say 'yes' because I've encountered many people who feel there is a greater power but are uncomfortable with the Christian God. Some prefer to describe themselves as agnostic and spiritual.Radio Frequency X said:...Is there room for agnosticism in religion? ...
A UU would say, 'absolutely'.Radio Frequency X said:Is there room for agnosticism in religion?
Radio Frequency X said:I don't know anything about gods. I don't know any divine wisdom. I don't know any divine truths. I'm just a guy that loves religion, loves myths, loves people, loves imagining worlds greater and deeper than the seen. Yet, despite the imagined, I still love the material world, the real world, the stuff that exists.
Aristotle painted a picture of a single God whose function was the universe. I think of all the gods as the function of the things they correspond to. Though, I think people see that as pretty strange. I don't know if my views are 2,000 years early or 2,000 years late. But my agnosticism is just honesty. I don't know that the gods exist.
angellous_evangellous said:There's plenty of room for agnostics in religion.
However, there is no way to participate in the myth without faith. By faith myth interacts with history. It's by faith that we interact with the myths.
Radio Frequency X said:I interact with the myths the same way I interact with Aristotle, David Hume, Adam Smith, the music of The Who, and the paintings of Leonardo. My faith is determined by my experience. The more I experience something to be true, the more faith I have in it. But I think you are talking about blind faith, which is something I don't really understand.
The gods you describe, that are "the function of the things they correspond to", you don't know for sure that that is what 'god' is, right?Radio Frequency X said:I interact with the myths the same way I interact with Aristotle, David Hume, Adam Smith, the music of The Who, and the paintings of Leonardo. My faith is determined by my experience. The more I experience something to be true, the more faith I have in it. But I think you are talking about blind faith, which is something I don't really understand.
Willamena said:The gods you describe, that are "the function of the things they correspond to", you don't know for sure that that is what 'god' is, right?
How is that any less 'blind' than what other people believe?