Originally Posted by
Ava Estelle
Well according to Thomas Huxley, who coined the phrase, everyone is agnostic, because whatever you claim to know about such things you really don't. You may think you do, but by his criteria, unless your claim is demonstrable, it cannot be proved. So you could still be religious, deeply religious, and you could still believe all the tenets of your religion, but if you accepted the simple 'truth' that you simply don't know, you'd be agnostic. This would apply equally to atheists.
No argument from me old bean. Any religion worth it's salt will tell you that it is based on faith. Christianity certainly does.
I don't actually know that China exists either, I just take that on faith. If you think about it pretty much everything we "know" is taken on faith. Anything outwith our own personal experience is taken on faith.
Feck for all I know you could be an Englishman in his fifites living in Australia and killing his days talking trash on the internet. You tell me you are not, so I take that on faith too.
However given that the chaps topic is actually about religion it's probably fairer to use the word as it pertains to that particular subject, rather than it's broader meaning.
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