I can’t tell from the excerpt if Vincent Bugliosi is a proponent or an opponent of agnosticism. Does it matter though? Does anybody who reads “Helter Skelter” (Bugliosi’s only claim to fame) really give a crap what his religious beliefs are?
I didn’t think so.
My pantheist friends which include Buddhists and Neopagans believe God is knowable because from their beliefs God is inherent in the blades of grass and within themselves. They do believe that some things are a mystery but that discovering the divinity is one of their functions in life. My Agnostic friends, who are not pantheists are the ones who claim that God is unknowable, which I think is a cop- out.
Ultimately, if you could know for certain that there is a God, then you have no need for faith. Faith in God requires that you cannot know for certain there is a God - you simply believe it must be true.
How about I say that no one has stated any positive assertion regarding the existence of god convincingly to my satisfaction? That is a logical statement that requires no further proof since it is subjective and it makes no impact upon the beliefs others hold.
Logic tell me that while no matter how many witness' testify to event, unless I was was a witness to event I can not be absolutely perfectly sure it is true...
But by reason we can accept something is it true to degrees of certainty
In the case on God as creator of all ...as no one was a witness other then God...
By logic I can not be beyond doubt ....but by reason and faith I can
I must accept or reject but by pure logic I can not prove
I moved from agnostic to believer years ago. It is not possible to quantify God, but whatever you believe, you must admit that He at least exists as a “concept.” Just as real as a circle, love, or the soul of a man.