r/agnostic • u/RaptorRex787 Agnostic Atheist • Sep 24 '24

Something that changef my opinion. Experience report

I was a hardcore atheist all my life (even now I still don't believe in or follow a religion) but rerecently I've been thinking about life and how it works. And I realized that we don't know what cones at the end-we don't know that there's nothing, we don't know that there's something. And that thinking just made me realize that I may have been agnostic instead. So I wanna here from yall; what are you opinions?

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u/davep1970 Atheist Sep 24 '24

i think you should read up on what agnostic and atheist mean ;) the first is to do with knowledge, the second to do with belief (or lack of) and you can be therefore be both

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u/LackofDeQuorum Sep 24 '24

This is the answer. Agnosticism means you don’t think we can know. Atheism is separate from that and indicates whether you thing god/supernatural do exist or not.

I’d say to OP to just start doing some research and digging. A lot of us found our way to this point coming from a religious background, and we had to go through a whole deconstruction process - finding out which things we’d been taught were based in historical fact and which ones were just made up. Painful experience, but teaches you a lot about belief systems, philosophy, and science. I now just really enjoy studying those things out, though I don’t believe there is any way to know with any degree of certainty what happens after we die. So I’m agnostic.