Sunday, December 14, 2008

Better follow apatheism reather than agnoticism!!!

Theists have a belief in some sort of creator for the universe. They either have a somewhat exact view or at the very least a vague notion of what this creator is and the nature of that creator's existence. Theists qualify their belief by saying they only believe.

Atheists are the opposite of theists by either actively rejecting the entire idea of a creator or at the least rejecting specific definitions of a creator as defined by theists. Atheists qualify their belief by saying they don't believe.

We now move from belief to knowledge.

Gnostics have a belief in a creator. They apparently made claim to know things that others simply had a belief in. It is from this word that Huxley came up with the idea for the word agnostic to describe his lack of knowledge for such things as creation.

Agnostics do not have a defined belief in regards to creation because agnostics do not know. Agnostic means "without knowledge." An agnostic cannot be a theist because they can't have a belief in something that they do not have a knowledge of. You cannot believe in the undefined.

Agnostic's point of view is,

When asked, "who created the universe?", the answer is one which contains 3 words.

It is "I dont know" rather than "it is god".

It is foolish to believe in something you do not know.

This is the belief of agnostics which pulls them into a lot of debates and endless arguments with theists. When you know that there is no way to come to a conclusion what is the use in arguing? I hope that they would realise this soon!

If you take the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment and apply it to belief then the cat is god. Theists believe the cat is alive, atheists believe the cat is dead, and agnostics claim not to know that a cat is even in the box and leaves it open to suggest that it could be a dog, a unicorn, something we've never encountered before in this universe, or simply nothing at all that we're arguing about. Without having knowledge of what's really in the box and believing that we shouldn't rely on Schrödinger to tell us, "unknown" can be the only correct answer.

But the correct answer always need not be the best answer. The best answer here is "i don't care"!!!

This is where apatheism comes in. Apatheism(a portmanteau of apathy and theism/atheism)--a disinclination to care all that much about one's own religion, and an even stronger disinclination to care about other people's religion.

I BELIEVE that the rise of apatheism is to be celebrated as nothing less than a major civilizational advance. Apathists sometimes referred to as pragmatic atheists are large in numbers though they don't voice out that they are one.

"A world of pragmatic atheists," the philosopher Richard Rorty once wrote, "would be a better, happier world than our present one."
Best of all would be a world generously leavened with apatheists: people who feel at ease with religion even if they are irreligious; people who may themselves be members of religious communities, but who are neither controlled by godly passions nor concerned about the religious beliefs of others.

I am proud to say that i am an apatheist, one in a million, one among a group of people which is growing fast, who are going to make our world a better and happier place to live, in the near future.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Could ve been better..
But Good effort :)
Happy Apatheism ;P

Sharu said...

interesting...

apatheism... sounds precariously close to indifference. You do realize that you let the cat out of the box :P when referring to agnostics. They would say "Unicorn, dog, alien, man, whatever" and the apatheist would still say "I dont care".

Somehow the idea of apatheists taking over the world isnt too appealing to me :) Its too convenient to be right.

vasudha said...

enlightening...but ive got to argue abt one thing...if u dont care or believe, there will be no hope left...and wats life without hope :)?

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