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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (51441)6/4/1999 8:00:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
Further thoughts on the denial of agnosticism:

I realized something earlier today that could help to explain the denial of agnosticism. As stated, the only reasonable justification I've been able to come up with for this demonstrated need for theists to deny agnosticism is that they perceive it as some sort of threat. I had merely thought that the threat was to their faith, but while that still seems credible, there is another type of threat in agnosticism.

If I can be both agnostic and ethical, then it stands to reason that the government can be as well. This flies in the face of the theocratic view that a nation that is not grounded in religious dogma is doomed to destroy itself in an orgy of atheistic perversion.

I'm beginning to think that simply being an agnostic is not enough. Apparently I am going to have to become a militant agnostic. It seems odd that one would have to fight for the right to believe only in that which is demonstrably true, but...
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