I had a really interesting conversation with someone not too long ago who has a fairly different perception of agnosticism to me. They are an atheist, and view agnostics as those who believe in some kind of higher power (even if that’s simply the universe as its own power) but not a “god” as we know them. I don’t really believe in any kind of supreme/guiding being, I just find it inconceivable that the universe as we know it could have been a happy accident.

The more we talked the more I realised that my own ideology aligns a lot more than I realised with atheism than agnosticism, except for that fact that I can’t be certain there’s nothing more to it and (obviously) there’s no way of irrevocably proving the non-existence of a “religious” power. It left me feeling almost like this comes from a place of stubbornness for me?

So I’m curious to know how everyone here landed at agnosticism. Reading through some of the posts it seems like a lot of people moving away from organised religion but not the concept behind it and it makes me wonder if I’ve been defining my own beliefs incorrectly for my whole life 😅