A question to Agnosts and Atheists?

[USResident]

Re: A question to Agnosts and Atheists?

@Light Bearer

Religion to me was the best solution for the hungry minds of the respective eras, to answer their "why" questions. And whatever logic they had available at that time they have done a pretty good job.

Now hungry minds of today have better "whys" and deserve better answers.

Its always said never ask what was the first cause. I say why not? If religion is true it should be able answer this question.

Its Ok for atheist/agnostics to say "I don't know" because we rely only on our own intelligence. But theists supposedly have the devine power behind them, it's really hard to digest their "I don't know". AND if both of them are saying "they don't know" are they actually any different?

Well there is fundamental difference between the goals of science and religion. I think science is what tells us how and religion mostly tells us why. Now this is not stricltly the demarcation. Sciences were devleoped after the fact, so they cannot answer the why questions. They can definitely shed light on a lot of hows.

I dont think hungry minds have better answers to their whys but better answers to their hows.

I think atheist, agnostic and believer are on different pages. Atheists, deny the existence of a supreme being. Agnotics, consider it an unknown as you said because it is unseen, so for them is is a question mark and believers say there is a supreme being.