Agnosticism is an egregious delusion... it is a gateway drug to the self-righteousness drug of secular-theism.
In 2023, no sane rational educated functioning human can conscientiously maintain belief in the biblical turpitude.
So what can one do other than chucking in the garbage the entirety of the irrefragably immoral and antithetical to reality codswallop that is their faith?
Well.... grabble for and clench tightly onto the buoy of agnosticism.
It is what enables one, every year to participate in a ritual that celebrates the slaughter of children by a god that does not exist and observe the empty seat and table-setting for Elijah the prophet of a god that did not exist, in a house built on a land wrenched away from the bloodied arms of its autochthonous inhabitants, in the name of a promise and prophecy by a god that cannot exist.
By calling myself a secular-Jew I can carry on believing in the stuff in the Buybull that suits me and still be able to delude myself that I am a sane rational scientific 21 century intellectual.
As a secular-christian one can love Jesus and believe in cherry picked bits without having to avow Jesus the god... but rather extoll Jesus the Julius Caesar or George Washington like character the great teacher who started a cult of the end of the world in the name of his father the god that does not exist.
It is too late for theism... the Genie is out of the bottle and no one can shove it back into it.... but at least agnosticism can still allow one to keep the bottle while patrolling forums, relentlessly and indefatigably hawking claptrap to prevent any further proofs that might shatter the bottle too.
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In 2023, no sane rational educated functioning human can conscientiously maintain belief in the biblical turpitude.
So what can one do other than chucking in the garbage the entirety of the irrefragably immoral and antithetical to reality codswallop that is their faith?
Well.... grabble for and clench tightly onto the buoy of agnosticism.
It is what enables one, every year to participate in a ritual that celebrates the slaughter of children by a god that does not exist and observe the empty seat and table-setting for Elijah the prophet of a god that did not exist, in a house built on a land wrenched away from the bloodied arms of its autochthonous inhabitants, in the name of a promise and prophecy by a god that cannot exist.
By calling myself a secular-Jew I can carry on believing in the stuff in the Buybull that suits me and still be able to delude myself that I am a sane rational scientific 21 century intellectual.
As a secular-christian one can love Jesus and believe in cherry picked bits without having to avow Jesus the god... but rather extoll Jesus the Julius Caesar or George Washington like character the great teacher who started a cult of the end of the world in the name of his father the god that does not exist.
It is too late for theism... the Genie is out of the bottle and no one can shove it back into it.... but at least agnosticism can still allow one to keep the bottle while patrolling forums, relentlessly and indefatigably hawking claptrap to prevent any further proofs that might shatter the bottle too.
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via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/XnAOl90
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