agnostic and deliberate

When I was younger I did alot of talking and thinking and reading and exploring and all the typical stuff college kids do to find themselves. But unlike most college kids, I did most of this work to define my principles when I was in elementary and middle school.

Today i got an email from a guy who saw my profile on Facebook and asked me why I am agnostic. Typically I don’t discuss anything that personal with anyone who I am not close with, but I decided to indulge him.

I’m not reposting my response to him to start a debate or conversation with anyone, it’s just simply because it’s my personal, subjective truth. And I think it says a little bit about who I am as a friend, a developer and a man.

i’m agnostic because i feel that it is self-righteous for a person to claim they know the truth about anything beyond scientific understanding and reasoning.

i do understand that all definitions of g-d have been a tool used by man to explain nature as well as an instrument in teaching morality and healthy ways to live.

all of our moderrn understandings and beliefs (within the past 5000+ years) about what g-d is (or could be) are taught through documents that were written (and rewritten as they saw fit) by men. (archeological record of the practice of hinduism has been traced back more than 10,000 (and in one case approx 30,000) years).

these modern beliefs can’t possibly negate and be “more true than” the beliefs of those who lived before these modern beliefs existed.

and since proclaiming that there isn’t a g-d or any other external higher being is equally self righteous, i am agnostic.