DuracellEnergizer said:
Post Praetorian said:
Would you prefer to have a belief in God?
Alternately, what type of evidence might persuade you hold such a belief?
Yes, I would prefer to believe in God. I'm only agnostic because I have to be, not because I want to be.
As for evidence, I've pretty much given up hope that any concrete scientific/historical evidence in favour of any religion will come to light. I'd be satisfied with a personal spiritual experience.
If it might be considered that you feel this burden of agnosticism keenly, it might be helpful to note that if any justice or love based deity might exist it must surely consider this difficulty a form of payment no less equal than daily piety of another sort.
Alternately, if no such deity exists this weight must at the very least be looked upon as a means of deepening one's character. For if one might shoulder such a burden with a fair mind and honest heart it should be clear that such a one might prove to be capable of enlightening others without pretense to specific agenda.
To clarify, such a position must needs allow for a level of objectivity not possible among the more decisive. A potential in spirit, it may be called...