It seems to me that you are suggesting most reasonable people are agnostic.

I mean, if you say "God exists" but you don't believe you can really know , aren't you acknowledging the fact that God might not exist? And if this is the case, you are really agnostic.

Similarly, if you say "God does ...

Sure, fair enough. I started the thread to get other opinions, and I'll definitely change mine if I think it needs changing.

I certainly wouldn't say that it is a lack of opinion. It's not just giving up and saying you don't care. I've thought a lot about it, and there just isn't a way to prove either side. Because of that, it's my opinion, or belief, or what have you, that either side could be right, and it's impossible ...

It's closer to "can't know". Believing that it's impossible to know if God exists is still a belief. And that it's not an opinion is ridiculous.

how is it practical to live your life in fear of being subjected to an eternity in hell if you don't do what a god wants you to do, or live your life denying any possibility of of an afterlife?

exactly. because it is a fact that you can't prove god does or doesn't exist, agnosticism is the only belief regarding ultimate knowledge that can be proven. so why not subscribe to it?

sure it's an answer, it just isn't as clean cut as the others. and if there isn't any proof of it, how does a person go about convincing himself that there absolutely is a god, or isn't? and you would live your life the way you want. that's what people do in any case.

Look, I've seen a lot of threads about God versus science, (either in something about evolution vs. creationism, logic proving God exists, logic proving God doesn't exist, etc.) and really, everybody is just stuck in their views. Most claim to be open-minded, while it seems few actually are. God ...

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