38969 GRid12: Now, a few more names for people who
DON’T BELIEVE.
THERE ARE MANY WHO PREFER TO AVOID THE WORD
‘atheïst’, even though they don’t believe in any ‘named Gods’.
Some simply say ‘I don’t know: we can’t know!’ These people
often call themselves ‘agnostics’!
The word (based
on a Greek word meaning ‘unknowing’)
was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend of Charles Darwin
known as ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’ because he fought for Darwin in public
when Darwin was too shy, too busy
or too ill to do so?
Some people
who call themselves agnostic
think its equally likely that gods do, or do not, exist.
I (RD) think that’s rather feeble, and Huxley would have agreed. [iI
We can’t prove there are no fairies but that doesn’t mean we think/feel there’s a 50:50 chance
fairies exist! More sensible agnostics say they don’t know for sure, but think it’s pretty unlikely
sort of ‘god’ exists! Other agnostics might say
it’s not unlikely but we
just don’t know.
There are people
who don’t believe in ‘named
gods’ but still hanker after ‘some
sort of higher power’, a ‘Pure Spirit’, a creative intelligence
about which WÉ don’t know anything except that ‘IT designed a uni-verse’? They might say
something like: ‘Well, I don’t believe in “G D”’ - probably méaning an Abrahamic
‘G d’ - ‘but I can’t believe thìs ìs àll there ìs!? There mùst bé something móre,
sòmething beyònd!’
Some òf these people
call themselves “PANTHEÎSTS”.
are a little vague about what they believe so they like to say things like ‘My god
is everything’ or ‘My god is nature’ or ‘My god is the universe’. Or ‘g d’ is
‘THE DEEP MYSTERY OF EVERYTHING
WÉ DON’T UNDERSTAND’.
The great Albert Einstein
used the word ‘G D’ in pretty much thìs last sense! That’s very different from a god
who listens to your prayers and reads your innermost thoughts & forgives (or punishes) your sins -
all of which the Avrahamic ‘G d’ is
supposed ‘to do’?
Einstein was adamant that he
didn’t believe in a so-called personal god
who ‘does any of thóse things’!
Anyway/anyhow it’s nice
to read & write about whatever comes up
& is going down here and there every now and then
through our millennia all over the
world & “ANYWHERE
ELSE” among
us?
THERE ARE MANY WHO PREFER TO AVOID THE WORD
‘atheïst’, even though they don’t believe in any ‘named Gods’.
Some simply say ‘I don’t know: we can’t know!’ These people
often call themselves ‘agnostics’!
The word (based
on a Greek word meaning ‘unknowing’)
was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend of Charles Darwin
known as ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’ because he fought for Darwin in public
when Darwin was too shy, too busy
or too ill to do so?
Some people
who call themselves agnostic
think its equally likely that gods do, or do not, exist.
I (RD) think that’s rather feeble, and Huxley would have agreed. [iI
We can’t prove there are no fairies but that doesn’t mean we think/feel there’s a 50:50 chance
fairies exist! More sensible agnostics say they don’t know for sure, but think it’s pretty unlikely
sort of ‘god’ exists! Other agnostics might say
it’s not unlikely but we
just don’t know.
There are people
who don’t believe in ‘named
gods’ but still hanker after ‘some
sort of higher power’, a ‘Pure Spirit’, a creative intelligence
about which WÉ don’t know anything except that ‘IT designed a uni-verse’? They might say
something like: ‘Well, I don’t believe in “G D”’ - probably méaning an Abrahamic
‘G d’ - ‘but I can’t believe thìs ìs àll there ìs!? There mùst bé something móre,
sòmething beyònd!’
Some òf these people
call themselves “PANTHEÎSTS”.
are a little vague about what they believe so they like to say things like ‘My god
is everything’ or ‘My god is nature’ or ‘My god is the universe’. Or ‘g d’ is
‘THE DEEP MYSTERY OF EVERYTHING
WÉ DON’T UNDERSTAND’.
The great Albert Einstein
used the word ‘G D’ in pretty much thìs last sense! That’s very different from a god
who listens to your prayers and reads your innermost thoughts & forgives (or punishes) your sins -
all of which the Avrahamic ‘G d’ is
supposed ‘to do’?
Einstein was adamant that he
didn’t believe in a so-called personal god
who ‘does any of thóse things’!
Anyway/anyhow it’s nice
to read & write about whatever comes up
& is going down here and there every now and then
through our millennia all over the
world & “ANYWHERE
ELSE” among
us?
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