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| − | This can't be verified. There are lots of agnostics and atheists who donate to charity because its the right thing to do. I think this line is judgemental, presumptuous. and should be removed. | + | This can't be verified. There are lots of agnostics and atheists who donate to charity because its the right thing to do. I think this line is judgemental, presumptuous. and should be removed. [[user:JSJames|JSJames]] 7:23pm 22 September 2008 |
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Agnostics differ from regular atheists in that they do not deny God's existence
I hesitate to get involved in theological debate here; still less to make changes without agreement, but I should like to suggest that the word 'regular' be deleted from the above sentence. As written it suggests that Agnostics are not 'regular' atheists - ie, that they are some sort of (irregular) atheist. As an agnostic (type 2) myself I'd say that is not the case. The rest of the article makes it quite clear. Agnostics are not atheists, regular or otherwise. Alba 18:13, 23 May 2007 (EDT)
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"Agnosticism is the belief that God's existence or non existence is unknowable."
Isn't agnosticism the belief that a God's existence is unknowable? This article, in my opinion, sounds like it's saying agnosticism is the belief that solely the existence of the Christian God is unknowable.
Could the "God's" be changed to "the existence of a diety" or something like that? --Funnny 21:49, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
- God, with a capital 'G', refers to the real God. Christians aren't the only ones who write the name of God that way. It differs from, say, a belief that the 'golden calf' (a god) isn't knowable. Learn together 01:58, 15 July 2007 (EDT)
- That is the normal way for monotheistic religions, but there is no specific singular deity for polytheistic religions. God should be changed to "god or god's" because this would incorporate religion as a whole and not divide it into the one type. Jjjones 21:41, 29 January 2008(EDT)
I think they were referring to any higher power. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mjac1103 (talk)
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The charity subject
Agnostics in the United States give significantly less to charity than theists.
This can't be verified. There are lots of agnostics and atheists who donate to charity because its the right thing to do. I think this line is judgemental, presumptuous. and should be removed. JSJames 7:23pm 22 September 2008