Many have been made criminals, unbelievers, infidels, agnostics and atheists by it; how many have been made Christians?
Nor do we believe for a moment that what Huxley had in view, or what other agnostics have in view, is no more than a counsel of intellectual perfection.
The care taken by so many who call themselves Agnostics to explain to the religious world that they are not atheists, is almost enough to prove this.
As it is said, "We are all Socialists nowadays," so it is said that we are unbelievers or Agnostics nowadays.
Agnostics will pray for fire only when they lose faith in Reason.
And it is mere chatter to speak ofagnostics as praying "to their God to answer with fire," etc.
Many who call themselves agnostics are really atheists; it is easier to profess ignorance than to defend atheism.
The agnostics join with the deists in their objections.
Has not their testimony withstood the assaults of unbelievers, atheists and agnostics alike for nineteen centuries?
Religious people would laugh at me, agnostics would indignantly ask, was I going to make fun of them?
But then come the Neo-Kantian agnostics and say: We may correctly perceive the qualities of a thing, but we cannot by any sensible or mental process grasp the thing in itself.
Some of the agnostics and materialists have gone so far as to say that Jesus did not die on the cross, but his animation was suspended when his body was taken down from the cross by Joseph of Arimathsea.
These heretical agnostics and skeptical scientists say that the body of Jesus revived after a few hours in the cool, rock-cut tomb, that he walked out of the tomb, went to Galilee and appeared before his disciples.
In India and in other civilized countries of ancient times you will find that materialistic thinkers prevailed and they gave the same arguments which we hear now from the agnostics and scientists of to-day.
Another was his interest in the philanthropic work of agnostics like herself.
At any rate, he made us all agnostics at one stroke.
I am not one of those who believe in making concessions to agnostics and atheists.
Many Liberal and Tory leaders are Agnostics or Atheists.
It is true that some Socialists are Agnostics and some are Atheists.
This answer, for awhile, staggered the agnostics and Huxley himself evidently came near being convinced that it was beyond rebuttal.
He had labored with good intentions, no doubt, but the net result of all his smug agnosticism was that his disciples were as self-satisfied, bigoted and prejudiced in the garb of agnostics as they had been before as Christians.
Because of the perfect unity and harmony of the universe, the wisdom and regularity of all its movements and functions, and the apparent intelligence of its lower living organisms, the agnostics embrace monism and pantheism.
This last is virtually the position of Darwin, Huxley and all the agnostics from them to Ingersoll, and embraces Haeckel's moneism in its definition.
And of all the Atheists and Agnostics Bob Ingersoll is the most insupportable.
Agnostics who never fail in carrying out their principles are, I am afraid, as rare as other people of whom the same consistency can be truthfully predicated.
If agnostics lose heavily on the one side, they gain a good deal on the other.
I am deeply conscious how far I myself fall short of this ideal, but it is my personal conception of what agnostics ought to be.
Most of us have become agnostics in regard to the reality of these worthies.
Does he really mean to suggest that agnostics have a logic peculiar to themselves?
On the next page we are told, that "the truths which Agnostics repudiate have been, and are, acknowledged by all except a fraction of the human race.
His constant criticism upon positivists and agnosticsis that their creeds afford no satisfactory sanction.
If the Agnosticsand Positivists triumph, it will be transformed, not abolished.
And still England is being led by a Welsh Calvinist, opposed by a Scottish humorist who says his prayers, backed by Anglican agnostics and middle-class dissenters overwhelmed with fear.
Agnostics and Protestants, moved by fear on one side, and disgust on the other, will unite for a restoration as their last hope.
These men all professed to be agnostics at the very time when thus so egregiously violating their philosophy by their conduct.
To pure agnostics the evidence from conversions and regeneration lies in the bulk of these psychological phenomena, shortly after the death of Christ, with their continuance ever since, their general similarity all over the world, &c.
Mill and all other agnostics think, that even if internal intuition be of divine origin, the illumination thus furnished can only be of evidential value to the individual subject thereof.
Observe, when we become honestly pure agnosticsthe whole scene changes by the change in our point of view.
In other words, here we should all alike be pure agnostics as far as reason is concerned; and, if any of us are to attain to any information, it can only be by means of some super-added faculty of our minds.
Pure agnostics ought to investigate the religious consciousness of Christians as a phenomenon which may possibly be what Christians themselves believe it to be, i.
By all means let us retain our independence of judgement; but this is pre-eminently a matter in which pure agnostics must abstain from arrogance and consider the facts impartially as unquestionable phenomena of experience.
For it is certain that there are agnostics who would greatly prefer being theists, and theists who would give all they possess to be Christians, if they could thus secure promotion by purchase--i.
Pure agnostics and those who search for God in Christianity should have nothing to do with metaphysical theology.
Agnostics are good men, "because, willingly or unwillingly, they have taken in Christian ideas through every pore.
If those men of note who are even now agnostics at heart were to proclaim the fact and assist in propagandism, would not the flock follow the bell-wethers?
Superstition may remain, though even this may be questioned, considering that people brought up from their childhood as Agnostics are wholly devoid of any superstitious or so-called religious instinct.
The vast majority of English people are professing Christians, and if any charitable work is to be done agnostics give their support to it, although the agents for it are Christians.
We are told from the pulpit nowadays, by the broader-minded parson, not only that agnostics may be good men, but that they "exhibit the very temper which Christ blesses.
The believer would find that there are many more agnostics than he had ever dreamt there were, and he would also learn that their reason for abandoning belief was of a very different nature from what he had supposed.
Is it not because they are beginning to appreciate the perplexities of faith, and to learn that agnostics as a body can be, and are, good men?
When agnostics read the lessons in church, as they frequently do, and when, with their aid and the aid of others in various stages of heterodoxy, congregations in church and chapel on Sunday only amount to twenty-two per cent.
Many agnostics are just as firmly convinced as believers that their country's prosperity is bound up with the Christian belief.
They never took the trouble to try to understand what he meant by Atheism; and it must with regret be said that more competentAgnostics often make the same omission.
This meant, if anything, that the Atheists or Agnosticsthen sitting in Parliament were all so liable.
John Mill had in 1865 sworn "on the true faith of a Christian," and a good many Agnostics and Positivists have since unmurmuringly invoked the unknown God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agnostics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
