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To: f.Christian
The opposite of love is indifference...very good--agnosticism(neutral)!
Would I be right in thinking that English isn't your first language? Agnosticism is the opposite of gnosticism. Gnosticism is not belief in God, per se, it is belief in esoteric knowledge (which can include God, although several centuries ago the Gnostics were a small, heretical Christian sect, persecuted and sometimes executed by the mainstream). Gnosticism is the belief that we can, and probably do, know the truth about what lies beyond the material plane - and some gnostics believe that the truth is a combination of world religions (progressive revelation, that kind of thing), other subscribe to one particular religion and believe in one answer (the Christian God, the Jewish one, the Muslim one, the Hindu pantheon, the wonderful world of Wicca, etc). An agnostic believes either that nothing is known - ie, we don't know the truth yet, none of the existing world religions ring true - or that we can't be sure about what is known - so, we might have the truth available to us, but we have no way of telling that it is the truth.
Atheists(negative) are God Haters...my original post!
You're going round in circles. It really is most amusing. I ask again, how is it possible to hate something that doesn't exist? To hate God, one would have to believe in him. One who believed in and hated God would be... a Satanist, presumably. A worshipper of the Fallen Angel. I don't believe in him, either (The Usual Suspects not withstanding).
234 posted on 12/07/2001 12:49:18 PM PST by GCSmith
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To: GCSmith
A neurotic denies--avoids reality(meaning)--a psychotic escapes all realtiy--meaning(self-other than reality delusion--fantasy)!
235 posted on 12/07/2001 1:01:32 PM PST by f.Christian
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