Ramen.
You can just call yourself an atheist. Hell, if you call yourself a pastafarian you are basically an anti-theist.
Atheist and agnostic are not synonyms.
all agnostics are atheists because they dont believe in god
That is not true. There are gnostic athiests and agnostic deists.
“I’m not religious”
Can’t say I’ve ever had to explain anything more than that.
i prefer “i’m not superstitious”, because that’s what all religions are
Yeah, you can give up on superstition without giving up on religion.
So how will you teach little girls that they’re the problem? How will you fondle little boys? How will you comitt a genocide to prove that your religion is more moral?
Wtf are you talking about?
It’s a sarcastic counter to the typical arguments that there’s no inherent morality in human culture without religion. You know, people don’t naturally have empathy, so they have to be taught to simulate empathy because they beleive they’ll be judged when they die.
Have you felt the touch of His noodly appendage?
I’m tall. So according to Scripture: Not so much … 😫
Why agnostic? Like… If there’s no proof, why believe in the existence of a deity at all?
I was an agnostic for a very long time.
My main view of things - I couldn’t know if there was a god or if there wasn’t. But all that ultimate judgement shit never made any sense for me. If you’re just behaving decently because of fear of ultimate judgment, then you’re not a decent person. Ok if god would want me not to be an asshole, I’d need to be that out of my free will. And if a god demanded adherence to some random rules out of the blue - that god wouldn’t have a moral compass and I wouldn’t want to have to do anything with them in my life, being smitten down at the end would have been a consequence for me anyways.
I just want to be no asshole. So the question of there’s a god or not. I don’t care. God is irrelevant.
Thus: agnostic
I started staying I’m an atheist somw time ago, as that’s just quicker and I can go by without explaining.
Still - if there’s a god around, which is possible but improbable - I’m making sure I make fucking good use of the free will they gave me.
I mean you go girl more power to ya but it definitely isn’t easier to explain pastafarianism than agnosticism to normies. Noone except programmers and other too online people even know it exists (yes i am also a terminally online freak relax peeps, real recognize real)
Just show them the graph. Can’t argue with hard data.
Yeah pastafarianism is downright nostalgic and about what 20 years old now? That isn’t very relevant anymore imho
IKR… and normies go worshiping 2k+ yo books… sheesh
That’s the neat part - you don’t have to explain anything. You just assert the truthfulness of your religion and act offended when people point out how ridiculous it is.
