Agnostic Or Atheist? Not A Full Believer, Anyway …
My son was helping my husband and I to fill in some forms today, to get visas, for an upcoming trip overseas. There was a qestion that had to be filled in so my son asked, what was my religion, Agnostic? I said Atheist actually, but was content to leave it the way he had assumed.
As long as he didn’t name an actual religion, of the many on offer, I was fine with the name given to what I did or didn’t believe in. To my understanding, someone who would name themselves as Agnostic, isn’t sure about the reality or otherwise of a God, or Gods, while an Atheist is sure in their minds there are no Gods at all.
I’ve certainly waivered in my beliefs over the years, from no belief or knowledge at all of any Gods, as a young child, to an older child attending bible classes, at least for perhaps half of a year. Then work came along, adulthood, where drinking and looking for love took over, and there were no thoughts of anything spiritual, except for the spirits that came in bottles, and went well with coca cola!
Then as I’ve aged, the whole idea of there being any God ‘up there’ in the sky, or ‘Heaven’ has become ever more unbelievable, as my mind looks at the various beliefs of various people and peoples. Some of the ideas are crazy, some are of good works, but tied with some mystical Being who may reward you for the…
