What the $&#@ is an ignostic?
So what is an ignostic?
An ignostic is a person who ignores questions of the existence of god until a coherent definition of god is produced. All discussion of god is meaningless until a meaningful definition of god is established. Meaningful, in this case, refers to a definition that is capable of being falsified (I.E. Proven false)
If your definition of god cannot be falsified, then your definition is meaningless. One cannot meaningfully claim that some entity exists if one cannot coherently define it.
Since the word "god" has many different meanings, when someone says "god exists" it is possible for many different prepositions to be asserted. For each individual person's meaning of the word "god", there will be atheists, agnostics, and theists relative to that particular concept of god.
So I am ignostic with regard to your definition of god until you can formulate a coherent definition of it.
References:
Ignosticism: Internet Infidels
Wiki on ignosticism
An ignostic is a person who ignores questions of the existence of god until a coherent definition of god is produced. All discussion of god is meaningless until a meaningful definition of god is established. Meaningful, in this case, refers to a definition that is capable of being falsified (I.E. Proven false)
If your definition of god cannot be falsified, then your definition is meaningless. One cannot meaningfully claim that some entity exists if one cannot coherently define it.
Since the word "god" has many different meanings, when someone says "god exists" it is possible for many different prepositions to be asserted. For each individual person's meaning of the word "god", there will be atheists, agnostics, and theists relative to that particular concept of god.
So I am ignostic with regard to your definition of god until you can formulate a coherent definition of it.
References:
Ignosticism: Internet Infidels
Wiki on ignosticism
Labels: atheism, definitions, skepticism, testing
posted by Ziztur
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3:00 PM
4 Comments:
I'd never heard of the term ignostic before. It's an interesting position I guess, if not a bit redundant imo. Not really sure such a label is necessary.
Clearly two parties have to agree on the definition of "God" before a meaningful discourse can occur. The same could be said of two parties arguing the for/against some political ideology.
As for requiring a definition of God that can be falsified... if such a definition existed, then one could either prove or disprove such existence. At that point, a "winner" has been proclaimed -- either the atheists or theists. Once God has been proven/disproved, the need for all these labels (christian, muslim, atheist, etc) is eliminated altogether.
At least that's my 30-second take on it.
I'm with you in that I define god is any kind of supernatural transcendent being. I don't believe in any such entity, nor do I believe any such evidence exists. And like the Church of the Flying Speghetti Monster, I believe the onus is on the believers of such entities to offer proof of existence, not on me to prove their non-existence.
This guy on youtube made a video about this concept recently, although he does not use the word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IyJp5dak9M
Heard this word from one of friend when i asked him about his religion and then checked it in internet so just wanna say that am i a ignostic if i am ignorant about the existence of god as i am a buddist but don't have a knowledge about it so i was never interested into getting into the detail on any gods.
i cannot define god or know about it so tell me am i ignostic or not.
For some 43 years I have stated my "religion" to be an ignostic. Almost four and a half decades ago I read an article in The New York Times - if memory serves - that defined this word as someone who believes only in the scientific explanation of all questions that have not yet been answered.
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