Agnostics are not Non-believers
March 11, 2008We all know it’s true, believers and non-believers alike. No one knows what happens when we die. We have no more reason to believe it’s nothing than we do something. The problem with religious people is they think their something is the only something. The problem with non-believers is they think their nothing is also the only something. How many times can I say that “NO ONE KNOWS!!!!”. No one can know and no one human will probably ever know due to our limited understanding of the universe and our tiny, remarkable but still relatively inefficient brains.
The only truly rational position for anyone to adopt is that of an agnostic or an ignostic. Agnostics admit we don’t know and ignostics admit they don’t care, which is probably a much larger proportion of believers and non-believers than anyone on either side would care to admit. Americans are consumers. They care about accruing things from day to day. Most merely give lip service to religion. We call them hypocrites but in reality these people know deep-down that it doesn’t matter what they believe because reality always takes care of itself. Sure they claim to be whatever so they can go to church, feel good about making bad choices, get buried next to their kin and all those human customs but it’s all affectation and social bullshit. It’s just like being a Mason. You get benefits if you’re a member but not if you aren’t. It’s part of the human psyche to want to elevate ourselves above the rest of our kind. The concept of rankism doomed us from the time we evolved into our present forms.
This is all religion is, another form of rankism. Of course we also have sexism, racism and money to do that as well, not to mention nativism. Can someone please tell me how I’m really that different from a person in another country just because my country has a higher standard of living and more weapons? I’m not. We’re not and that has been our problem from the get-go. My words will be spent in vain as usual. Most humans have this need to be right because we want to be admired and respected by others, as if that will somehow survive death. That vanity inevitably comes at the expense of others as our self-destructive tendencies continue to do just that. There can be no compromise among self-righteous egoists. Sit back and enjoy the bumpy ride into our own destruction, which is well on its way.
So true– we have remarkable, yet so limited brains.
We only know what we know.
I admire the honesty of the agnostic. That’s why, if God chooses to whisper in their ear, they just might admit it.