Different types of agnosticisim

Discussion in 'Agnosticism and Atheism' started by Sebbi, Aug 6, 2005.

  1. Sebbi

    Sebbi Senior Member

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    I was reading "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel - this is the entire of Chapter 22:

    I can well imagine an atheist's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying,"Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

    I thought about this and ended up with this conclusion - there are three types of agnostic - those who are described in this extract - lack imagination and simply live in spiritual doubt; those who don't believe spirituality has any questions worth answering and haven't even thought about whether god exists or not; and finally those who (some might call spiritual sluts), have fully accepted theism, and at another point fully accepted atheism then decided that whether god exists or not isn't a question worth answering - if God exists, then let him show himself, if not then lets carry on as if he doesn't and stop waiting for god to fix the worlds problems - these people are spiritually, not in doubt, just open minded.

    Blessings

    Sebbi
     
  2. Kharakov

    Kharakov ShadowSpawn

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    Lol... Spiritual sluts!! hahah....

    That book was cool, in a wierd sorta way. I liked the island...
     
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