Agnosticism
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Agnosticism is the belief that it is impossible to know if there is or isn't a god, or higher power in the universe. This belief is different from atheism. Atheists believe that there is no god. A person who believes in agnosticism is agnostic.
[change] Different kinds of agnosticism
- Strong agnosticism (also called hard agnosticism, closed agnosticism, strict agnosticism, absolute agnosticism) is the belief that it's impossible to tell whether a god exists or not.
- Weak agnosticism (also called soft agnosticism, open agnosticism, empirical agnosticism, temporal agnosticism) is the belief that nobody knows right now whether a god exists or not, but that we might find out someday.
- Apathetic agnosticism is the belief that, because gods do not interact with the world in a very big way, it does not matter whether they exist or not.
- Ignosticism is the belief that the idea of god is useless, because believers and non-believers have the same kinds of lives.
- Agnostic theism is when people mostly believe in gods but are not completely sure whether the gods are real.
- Agnostic atheism is the view that a god may or may not exist, but probably does not exist.
