I was born into a Catholic family, but by age 8 or 9 I had doubts that what I was being told about God, the Bible and the history of our existence from the PoV of Christianity was unevidenced and in direct conflict with what we were learning in school - science, geology, etc...
So by 10 years old I considered myself agnostic and stayed that way until high school where I just decided to call myself an atheist because I was tired of having to explain my agnoticism.
I joined EvC in '08 and through much debating and discussions here I now consider the question of "Is there a God" to be as vague as the many descriptions of God that one can come up with. With the help of CatholicScientist I now consider myself an
Ignostic - which I had never heard that word before until CS showed me the definition.
Basically:
quote:
Ignosticism or igtheism is the theological position that every other theological position (including agnosticism and atheism) assumes too much about the concept of God and many other theological concepts.
It can be defined as encompassing two related views about the existence of God:
1. The view that a coherent definition of God must be presented before the question of the existence of God can be meaningfully discussed. Furthermore, if that definition is unfalsifiable, the ignostic takes the theological noncognitivist position that the question of the existence of God (per that definition) is meaningless. In this case, the concept of God is not considered meaningless; the term "God" is considered meaningless.
2. The second view is synonymous with theological noncognitivism, and skips the step of first asking "What is meant by 'God'?" before proclaiming the original question "Does God exist?" as meaningless.
It's actually been interesting, because most people I explain ignosticism to seem to relate much more to it than true atheism or agnosticism.
- Oni
Edited by onifre, : spelling was horrendous
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