#Agnosticism

[ao3demographicssurvey2024]

In the AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 - an unofficial demographics survey of 16,131 AO3 users - 17% of respondents identified as Christian, while 69% identified as having no religion.

To see more analysis, including a list of the common write-in answers for this question, please view the full results on AO3.

[creature-wizard]

Technically, I am agnostic. One thing I feel very certain about is that if it's possible for an infinitely infinite creator to exist all on its own for no special reason, then it's just as possible for our comparatively simple universe to exist all on its own for no special reason.

[positivelyatheist]

Just knowing the truth doesn’t guarantee a person is smarter. It’s how they arrived to their conclusion is what makes them smart. Someone who was raised in a truth and never questioned it isn’t smarter than someone who was raised in a falsehood and never questioned it. They’re both equally trusting the people that raised them.

This is why we MUST give children the freedom to explore different beliefs and views. They’ve got to diversify the ecosystem within their mind. Raising them to have the mind of a monocultured lawn will make them struggle when meeting those of other beliefs, even if you raised them to believe many true things.

[its-terf-or-nothin]

[thepersonalwords]

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Carl R White

[9q3]

every year someone on this hellsite invents a new way to dehumanize and trivialize people who do not believe in religion or supernatural things and then it gets hundreds of notes its sooo amazing lmao

[cieldunoir]

More pictures of Tobias that make me weak in the knees 😌

[chainofclovers]

Due to word limits, a few explanations:

"Raised religious" = raised in a home where one or more religions were practiced, with at least one parent or guardian who ascribed to those belief systems and practices and taught them to you.

"Raised without religion" = raised in a home in which no one practiced religion but no one was a convicted atheist, either.

"Raised atheist" = raised in a home where at least one parent or guardian who was an atheist taught you that belief system. "Conviction" = religious conviction that matches the religion you were raised in.

"Rel" = religion.

This poll is specifically for agnostic people as opposed to people who practice a specific religion or people who are atheist. If you consider yourself agnostic, please take the poll! I'm curious to learn more--in a very surface-level tumblr poll sort of way--about the way beliefs change over time, whether gradually or suddenly. Feel free to elaborate on your experience with agnosticism, atheism, and religion in the tags.

[music-for-them-asses]

Happy holidays from your favorite agnostic!

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

Jorge Luis Borges, NY Times Interview, 1971

[alyceinwonderland777]

Christians when their sky daddy asks Abraham to kill his son to "show him his faith" and Abraham actually tries to do it: 😍🥰🤩❤️

Christians when someone who struggles with mental health commits suicide: 😠😠😤😡🤬

[positivelyatheist]

Forest Creature: You’re a person who knows everything aren’t you?

Snufkin: Little one, if you worship someone too much, you’ll end up losing your freedom.

[thepersonalwords]

My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity