Why I'm Not an Atheist: The Case for Agnosticism

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229. I hold no ill will or judgment to those who believe in god or believe there is no god either...

To say that those of us that want to distinguish ourselves as being agnostic and questioning whether we know anything of what the afterlife (if there is one or not) holds for us from those who believe there is no such thing, or those who believe that is structured a certain way, is putting us in to a box that I don't think fits our beliefs.

I'm quite comfortable acknowledging that the person next to me is an atheist and feels confident of their own personal feelings beliefs of not having a god and consider them a valuable part of society and having valuable perspectives to look at.

I feel the same towards those who are solidly Christian in their beliefs, and use its structure of beliefs to help guide them spiritually in making a good life better for themselves and others around them too. Or for that matter, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, etc.

But I don't want them projecting their beliefs of atheism (the need to say there is no god), or another religion (the need to say to me I need to accept Christ) on to me. That I have a problem with. I like to consider myself an open book, until I have a personal revelation one way or the other if that comes at some point. I think it is a highly personal thing, that is shaped by our lives we live in. I hear others, and at some point might accept someone else's beliefs if it at some point I see the reality of those beliefs. But I haven't to this point, and value that I'm open to all different points of view. It allows me to look at all of the common belief systems and atheist beliefs and those values people have when having such beliefs, and seeing what I see as common good personal moral values of all of them, and that structures my beliefs that there MIGHT Be something out there that is god like that influences all of those different religious beliefs in the same way to help society be good to each other.

I don't believe myself "superior" as an agnostic to others, and am not trying to dismiss everyone else, that some here say that agnostics are trying to do. I just want to have my own space for my own beliefs or my own questioning of my own beliefs and not to be judged or lumped in to some other belief category that I don't really belong to. It's just a personal thing. Nothing more! I think, though don't know, that I probably share the same viewpoint with a lot of agnostics out there.