You also might be considered lukewarm, or wishy-washy, and unable to make a commitment. I hope some day you will make a choice. God Bless.
For me personally, I am not bothered as to what others think about my agnosticism. I have chosen to be agnostic for a reason - that being I do not have enough knowledge to say “yes” or “no”, and that my personal leaning finds the idea of a God implausible rather than probable. I guess I could be described as an agnostic atheist, but I am trying to be open minded. In my opinion, my position is a commitment to understanding and knowledge of different beliefs, and deciding how I feel about them. So far I have seen no reason to change my position because I am happy with it - it describes my personal view as Catholicism decribes yours.
Being happy with agnosticism suggests you are happy with not having to make a commitment to the power of Love.
Science cannot be either atheistic or agnostic because by its very strict methodology it has denied itself the right to an opinion, which is not the same as saying no knowledge of God possible.
That only makes sense if one assumes that love comes from God (specifically your god). I can’t imagine that anybody here, no matter their religious affiliation is without love.
Or as Sgt. Schultz said so often: “I know nothink!”
Oh, Schultz definitely knew. You don’t have Hogan et al keep Burkhalter from sending Klink to the Russian front so many times without knowing something is going on.Or as Sgt. Schultz said so often: “I know nothink!”
I don’t get what you are saying. Are you a man before God as St. Francis who is humble and contrite, or a person who has no idea what the heck he believes in? You misinterpret St. Francis if you think he does not believe in God as everything in his life.
I agree. Take a stand. God is out there waiting for you with open arms.
I think you make a good point and I agree with you, so I almost hate to point out that the same day you made this post, there were articles appearing that claimed there is evidence that chimpanzees worship a god. Or God, maybe.Many atheists are fond of saying there is no God, or that there is no evidence to support His existence.
I wonder then how they would respond to the following question: Why is it, that human beings are the only species on earth that has religion or ponders the existence of God?
In other words, why would it be a near universal (historically) trend in the human species to believe that the Divine ( in various forms) existed?
Our closest living relatives, the great apes, do not contemplate that, nor indeed do they have consciences or moral-making abilities.
Part of me thinks… if the atheists were correct, and that Earth just formed by chance billions of years ago, than the human species likely would not think about God, or care about His existence. Why debate or be concerned with something that is fictional?
I hope my argument makes sense. I just think… that even if the biblical genesis accounts are not literally true, their essential message is true. It is abundantly clear that humanity is an organsim compeltly distinct from every other organism that exists.
In terms of behavior and functionality, the great apes (including the chimpanzee… with 98% identical DNA as homo sapien) have far more in common with all other animals than they do with human beings.
Not saying this is sufficient evidence, but isn’t it strong evidence that indeed, humans are special, and yes, created by an intelligent power greater than us?
I’m no great apologist for the faith far from it… it’s just an idea I’ve had lately…
Ha ha ha! That’s some pretty crazy religious behavior if you ask me. Talk about stretching the truth! Well, thanks for a good laugh.
The problem is to distinguish the honest “I don’t know” from the dishonest one that doesn’t want to know.
There is a name for your beliefs–indifferentism.
Now, I don’t mean that pejoratively. It happens to be where you’re at in this point in your life. You don’t want to be bothered with anyone’s rules and regs. I think that’s your impression of religion, but that’s not what religion is. Rules and regs are meant to keep us on the path to Truth, not that they are truth, in and of themselves. The 10 Commandments are God’s natural law codified so no one can be in doubt as to what they are. It’s fine to be good to one’s fellow man, but that isn’t always enough. We human beings are sinners, fallen creatures who can only love as much as our fallen nature will allow us to. That might be quite a lot, even to the giving of one’s life for another, but is it truly love if it doesn’t rule the whole of our lives, in the small moments as well as in the larger ones? No, it’s not. God wishes to restore us to his love, his truth, so that we can be the people he created us to be before man disobeyed, thinking he could get all that on his own, without God. It doesn’t work that way, you know. At some point I believe you will not be able to give the kind of love you want to/should. At that point you may come to see that you cannot do this all on your own. You need God for that–for no one can fully love his brother without first loving the God who created them both.I was never in your position theologically, but I was very anti-Catholic at one point in my life, so yes, indeed, our beliefs can change and change radically, but it’s usually a slow process. God works with each of us according to our needs. I pray you find all you need in your life. God bless and keep you and yours.
