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Neglected Offbeat Prawn | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I believe God is real and good. I'm a Libertarian myself, but at least I can acknowledge my God is not.
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BitBurn | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 As a former Libertarian I can respect your opinion.

As a realist I have to tell you that the best logical assumption is agnosticism. None of us know anything for certain.
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Jeff Swann | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 What do you mean that nothing can be known for certain? Do you mean about God, or about anything at all?
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BitBurn | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 About anything unseen. God, aliens, bigfoot, etc.

Its best to say "I don't really know for a certainty if they exist".
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Jeff Swann | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I agree that we don't know for certain whether there is any sort of ethereal consciousness we can pray to or communicate with. But I think certainty about the existence of God depends on how you define "God."
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Marakesh 𓅦 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Are you certain that none of us knows anything for certain?
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BitBurn | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Certainly.
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Neglected Offbeat Prawn | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 faith is the evidence of things unseen.
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BitBurn | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I know the quote well, but a belief is not really evidence now is it? If I have faith in Bigfoot, does that make him real? I don't know for sure do I? That makes me a Bigfoot agnostic.