Atheism is about being proud to say “I don’t know”
I don’t know.
exactly!!!
Actually …
Agnosticism is about being comfortable to say I don’t know.
Atheism is about being comfortable to say I don’t believe.
I’m a strong atheist and I find agnostics almost belligerently tedious. It’s one thing to have faith. It’s another thing to have no faith. But to go through life saying “I don’t know and neither can you (because if you could know then surely I could know) makes you entirely insufferable.
If you think of theists and atheists as two opposing sides in a game of soccer, then agnostics are streakers. They have nothing to add to the game but they want you to look at them for a while because, well, they’re not interested enough to choose a side, but just check out their bums!
Agnostics are the worst.
I hadn’t thought of it in those terms until now but given this analogy I wouldn’t call agnostics streakers because that would imply that they try to make it all about them when in fact they’re the least self-referential group of the three. Agnostics are more like referees: the theists and atheists play their little game, each trying to score points on the other and the agnostics are there to blow the whistle when somebody gets kicked in the nuts.
So, yes, agnostics are the worst because too often they’re hardwired for objectivity. But without agnostics you don’t have sport — you have chaos.
