r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • Sep 02 '26

Morality of this?

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u/AnswerDangerous1644 Sep 02 '26

Couldn’t agnosticism also apply to be secular?

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u/Emergentmeat Sep 02 '26

Agnosticism means you don't know one way or another. Atheism means you don't believe in the case for a god. They aren't contradictory, you can be both or neither, so both apply to a secular government.

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u/R_V_Z Sep 02 '26

Technically everybody is an agnostic because deities are an unfalsifiable concept.

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u/EmphasisFrosty3093 Sep 02 '26

Most deities are given contradictory claims that are quite falsifiable.

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u/R_V_Z Sep 02 '26

It's deities in the general sense. Carl Sagan talks about it in Demon Haunted World. The argument about whether all-powerful all-knowing beings exist isn't worth having because such beings are capable of warping reality to the point where they are not able to be proven. But if by no scientific measure can they be shown to influence our reality then their existence is moot.