Can you tell me about your religious belief?

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Hold on, if I believe in something and tell you so, am I not honest with you?

[–]Only71Genders 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If I said that, it wasn't intentional. I specified that people have beliefs and faith. People saying that they know (as in, for a fact) something in this context are not being honest. Not necessarily maliciously, but literally no one on this planet actually knows any of this. I mean, unless they ARE God, and then I would ask them who or what created them. Then back to square one. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my rambling.

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Alright. But I think there is a difference between knowing there is no god and knowing there is no god known by mankind because that's what I believe, of course I can't know if something is false if it's unflasifiable but I can analyse human history and it's patterns, how different cultures created their unique gods in isolation. To me that proves that this is a game of manipulation to control the people.

[–]Only71Genders 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I completely agree with the distinction you made.

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This already exists. Theistic Agnosticism and Non-Theistic Agnosticism.

If you believe that a Deity exists, but it is totally unknowable and unprovable then that is Deism. Deism is pretty cool. It lets you analyze different gods without having to believe they exist as they have been described. For example: Maybe Zeus and Wotan are the same guy. Or perhaps Huangdi wasnt Chinese at all.