“An Agnostic Manifesto”
“An Agnostic Manifesto: At least we know what we don’t know.” By Ron Rosenbaum. You can read the article here: http://www.slate.com/id/2258484/pagenum/all.
Here is a .pdf mirror: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=…ZWU2ZWJh&hl=en.
Gnosticism/Theism/Atheism/Agnosticism defined
This is how I would rank the list:
- Gnostic theism: the confident assertion of “I know there’s a god” or “I know there are gods.”
- Theism: believing in a god or gods.
- Deism: belief in a god, but believing that the god has no interference with the universe. A variation of this is polydeism.
- Agnostic theim: the viewpoint that a god or gods exist, but the nature of these deities are unknowable.
- Weak agnosticism: the belief of god is currently unknowable, but may one day be so. Judgment is reserved until then.
- Ignosticism: the refusal to use labels on oneself until a much more clear definition of theism arises.
- Agnosticism: knowledge of truth is unreachable.
- Strong agnosticism: the belief that it is impossible for humans to know whether or not any deities exist.
- Agnostic atheism: believing there’s no man-made gods in existence, but strongly open to the possibility that a god or gods still may exist. Also called strong agnostic atheism.
- Implicit atheism: the so-called de facto atheist. Those who have not been made aware of a god or gods. This is where one will not reject or accept the idea of a god or gods.
- Weak atheism: this refers to any other type of non-theism, wherein a person does not believe any deities exist, but does not claim that same statement is false.
- Strong atheism: a strong disbelief in the existence of deities.
- Antitheism/Explicit atheism: active opposition to theism. Possibly also anti-agnostic.
- Gnostic atheism: the assertion of “I know there are no gods”.
