Encouraging Discipling Communities

Send us a textThe Case for Agnostic AtheismI (Ron Brown) spent close to 20 years being an agnostic atheist.Agnostic atheism can be described as follows: it constitutes a lack of belief in God, but not any claim of certainty of knowing that there is no God. What distinguishes it from agnosticism can be summed up by the statement “Agnostic in theory, atheist in practice”. What this means is that the agnostic atheist doesn’t know that there is no God, but sees no reason to act as if there is one. Likewise, it’s conceivable that New Zealand could crumble into the ocean tomorrow, but unless we have reason/evidence that this will happen, it would be silly to rearrange our day around this conceivable possibility. This, I still think, is a very strong position. As strong as any other, and quite possibly stronger.  Some people accuse atheists of arrogance, but this is actually a very humble position. There are plenty of arguments that religious folk have made for the existence of God, and atheists have great responses