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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (2724)	10/26/2000 9:11:22 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Persecuting? And how exactly do agnostics persecute people? Do they question them to death? Please link me to any historical or current example of an agnostic persecuting anybody, about agnosticism.

To: Greg or e who wrote (2724)	10/26/2000 10:00:28 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

if you claim to know that nobody can know anything I think you are turning a philosophical argument into kind of a trick question that turns on the meaning of know which has subtly different usage in different parts of your sentence. A more accurate paraphrase would be that nobody can know everything. From this it can follow that nobody can know anything if and only if the strongest connotation of know is used, i.e. to know completely everything about something. TP

To: Greg or e who wrote (2724)	10/26/2000 12:17:33 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

According to Geisler; " Total agnosticism is self defeating because it assumes some knowledge about reality in order to deny any knowledge of reality." Greg, all this means is that doubt is justified and that ALL things are only knowable to some degree. This is an absurd interpretation of what it means to be agnostic. There is CERTAINLY room for doubt in all belief systems. Are saying that to doubt doubting forces one to absolute belief? Ridiculous.