Agnostics: this god whose existence you’re not sure about, is it the Christian god or some miscellaneous god?
I’ve noticed that when you guys are talking to Christians, you tend to talk about this god whose existence you’re not sure about the same way Christians talk about their god concept. I’ve even seen some of capitalize the G in god, which seems to indicate that your agnosticism is biased in favor of the Christian god concept. When you guys are talking to people who believe in Mbombo, the African god who vomited the entire universe into existence, do you talk about Mbombo the same way you talk about this god whose existence you’re not sure about?
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Pokie seems to be especially biased against the God of the Bible.. Do you think maybe it's because he's NOT 100% sure after all?
This is really a more interesting question than it first appears. The answer seems obvious at first, but then I think about it and it gets more complicated.
The modern, 'enlightened' approach to religion is that there is one God. I think all monotheistic religions believe in the same God, because they all share common roots, but they believe different things about God.
'God' is rightly spelled with a capital letter for monotheists because he is the only one and that's the name we give him. 'Allah' is just the Arabic word for God. Some people call him Jehovah or Yaweh, but those are also not real names. From the very beginning he was a God without a name, 'The God of Abraham', etc.
There's an old joke that if you are unemployed you should take some classes in something so then you'll know what kind of work you're out of. Well it's the same for people who don't believe in God. The God they don't believe in is the one their neighbors do believe in. I mean, I don't have a dog, so I can't tell you what breed he is. 8^) If my neighbor had a dog and I was over there petting it, I could tell him what kind of dog I don't have, it would be one like that.
Richard Dawkins, who wrote the book 'The God Delusion', said that there shouldn't need to be a word for people who don't believe in God, because there is no word for people who don't believe in witches or spirits or fairies. He said that even theists disbelieve in many Gods--Roman and Greek gods, Egyptian gods, Norse gods, etc. Atheists just disbelieve in one more god!
I'm an agonistic atheist, not because I'm not sure, but because I don't think the existence or non existence of any god can absolutely be proven.
It's similar to the idea that I can't absolutely prove that you or any other asker are not really aliens.
if there is a god then i'm 100% positive it's not a god that we know anything about. certainly not the god of the bible.