M.D. Rawlings
Classical Liberal
I firmly believe that the values of religious/metaphysical beliefs regarding a specific deity, or deities are unknown. I understand that faith in the unknown of an incoporeal deity is paramount to any metaphysical faith, but frankly there are too many loopholes in religion. I would like to consider myself an Agnostic-Theist in the sense that I do believe that God exist, but the definition of God is unknown. I firmly believe that there is a deity that exist and is above all others in the universe but I do not know, nor can define, what this deity is. i guess you can say like people of religious faith, have a faith-like belief in something unknowable. But I firmly believe Agnosticism is probably the most logical thinking. Monotheism, like atheism is fine but there is no proof for either, just philosophical arguments for proof and disproof.
No true atheist can prove a negative and neither a theist can prove the existence of an incoporeal deity.
Agnostics believe that, as far as can be judged, all metaphysical claims are unknowable. Theists believe that there is a God that is in control of the everyday operation of the universe. You cannot be both an agnostic and a theist.
The rest of your post makes as much sense as your claim to be an antagonistic theist, ie, none.
I thought Aristotle's post was thoughtful and sincere.
Though I profoundly disagree with a number of his sentiments, he nevertheless zeros in on an important truth: there's no argument to be had that proves God's existence or His nonexistence, and the barrier of faith, with regard to the belief in a specific Deity, is insurmountable . . . though the arguments for the existence of God, Whoever, objectively speaking, that might be, have the logical edge.
Correction: Metaphysical claims are not unknowable, for they are rational constructs very well known by those who apprehend them. They just don't readily lend themselves to the calculi of science. Metaphysics is an indispensable discipline, an inescapable necessity of human consciousness and action. You just think you understand its nature correctly.
All scientific theories rest on one metaphysical presupposition or another. Though their criteria are different, metaphysics and mathematics are to a significant extent inseparable.
The word "unknowable" is careless, misleading. The proper way to look at metaphysical claims is that they are not empirically falsifiable. Nevertheless, they are among the various assumptions we make everyday in our lives in order to live them. Some metaphysical assumptions work out just fine. Others don't.
But then the same has been true about a good many scientific claims as well.
Your extreme materialism is showing. Better zip that up.