by Tdarcos » Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:57 am
At first, I thought you said you were a Lutheran; I would hate it if you joined a cult like that, Lutherans are just Catholics who don't want to admit they are. Martin Luther created the Lutheran Church in about the 12th century after they fired him from the Catholic Church.
Jiz if you're an agnostic, you're probably also an atheist, you just don't know it yet. Try this question: Do you actually believe in your heart of hearts that there actually is a god (or gods) in charge of everything? If you really, truly believe there are multiple gods, you're a polytheist. If you believe there is only one, you're a monotheist. But if you don't really, truly believe in any, you're an atheist.
And only you can decide what you are. Nobody gets to claim you weren't "really," a believer, or a Christian, or anything else, because
they think a "true believer" would not have given up their faith, or become a Satanist, or something worse, like a Lutheran, a Catholic, a Jehovah's Witness, or a Mormon. That's the "
No true Scotsman" fallacy.
Besides, there's no shame in not believing in a single God (or in multiple ones). Humans have invented about 10,000 different gods, From Aphodite to Zeus. The typical Western Christian, Jew or Muslim believes in one god, and does not believe in Apollo, Juno, Poseidon, Wotan, or Zarathustra. So they don't believe in 9,999 other gods than the one god of Abraham. "Atheists just go one god further" and we also don't believe in YHVH / Jehovah / El Elohim.
At first, I thought you said you were a Lutheran; I would hate it if you joined a cult like that, Lutherans are just Catholics who don't want to admit they are. Martin Luther created the Lutheran Church in about the 12th century after they fired him from the Catholic Church.
Jiz if you're an agnostic, you're probably also an atheist, you just don't know it yet. Try this question: Do you actually believe in your heart of hearts that there actually is a god (or gods) in charge of everything? If you really, truly believe there are multiple gods, you're a polytheist. If you believe there is only one, you're a monotheist. But if you don't really, truly believe in any, you're an atheist.
And only you can decide what you are. Nobody gets to claim you weren't "really," a believer, or a Christian, or anything else, because [i]they[/i] think a "true believer" would not have given up their faith, or become a Satanist, or something worse, like a Lutheran, a Catholic, a Jehovah's Witness, or a Mormon. That's the "[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman]No true Scotsman[/url]" fallacy.
Besides, there's no shame in not believing in a single God (or in multiple ones). Humans have invented about 10,000 different gods, From Aphodite to Zeus. The typical Western Christian, Jew or Muslim believes in one god, and does not believe in Apollo, Juno, Poseidon, Wotan, or Zarathustra. So they don't believe in 9,999 other gods than the one god of Abraham. "Atheists just go one god further" and we also don't believe in YHVH / Jehovah / El Elohim.