Many agnostics also volunteer our time, helping out in the Red Cross, the United Way, and a numerous other beneficial organizations, just because we don't believe doesn't mean that we are not good people. I am a good person, sharing what I have with others freely, not because I have to, because I want to. I am just pointing out the irony of the situation.
I think agnostics are actually more open minded than those who participate in an organized religion. I can take the teachings of a number of different religions, take the lessons taught to heart, and be a good human. I mean, who can't dig that crazy blue Shiva in the Hindu religion? He is one figure that I would like to study more.
Who wrote the old testament, the new testament (heck, we should just change a few things here to liven it up a bit), the book of Mormon, the Torah, and the Koran?
Don't these books all teach similar beliefs to a certain extent with similar examples being given throughout each text? Why the need for all of these different religions? I'll tell you why. Because each religion , originally societies (think Sunni, Shiite, etc in the Muslim faith, or the different factions within the Jewish religion, or the different factions in Christianity), needed to prove how they were superior to others. It continues today. Religion is constantly used as a means to divide people.
Just one man's observations. I see it misused too often to be a believer myself. I am open to it, but I am also a logical thinker. "Just believe" doesn't work in math, or science. I won't even begin to go into evolution.
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"Give me the anger, fish! Give me the anger!"
They call me POODLE SMOLT!
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